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Seriously? Not only are snakes fascinating to anyone who has a clue, they are also quite helpful. After building gardens, we had a minor plague of voles (kind
by toss1 5y ago
Seriously?
Not only are snakes fascinating to anyone who has a clue, they are also quite helpful.
After building gardens, we had a minor plague of voles (kind of mouse-like, but eating plants and behaving a bit like moles) eating the plant roots - in the spring, just go touch a plant and it falls over, it's rootball having been eaten back to the size of a tennis ball.
The next summer we started seeing garter snakes, and several years later a milksnake (I live in the Northeastern US). The voles aren't 100% gone, but mush less of a problem.
Watching an ecosystem balance itself is wonderous.
- BrissyCoder 5y agoLive Australia (where I think the snakes are probably much more venomous than NE US?). Have young children so any snake I see on my property other than a green tree snake will be executed.
- happytoexplain 5y agoThere's a universe of difference between "kill all snakes" and "kill snakes on your property if you have children and live in Australia and aren't sure it's non-venomous".
- philliphaydon 5y agoI was living in bronte in Sydney and heard a ruckus one morning, family next door with 4 young kids screaming. About 20m later the father came out with a shovel and a snake on it that came up through the toilet bowl, was the 4yo that discovered it. I don’t know what kind of snake it was but that would be enough for me to not want to raise kids in Australia lol.