snakes at home. report sightings and tips how to avoid them

[Footy Chick]

buy a couple of Mongooses.

Is that the actual plural of mongoose?

Mongi? Mongoosi? Mongeese?

[CENTURION]

Mongwah? Mongi? Mongoosees?

[cheetah]

Have a farmer in your team! I remember as a kid seeing old shocka get one with a cricket bat on the field! cleanest hit in his career!

[helicopterking]

Buy a Goanna. Snakes hate them.

[Wedgie]

That one obviously only stops Cobras, and they are barely venomous at all compared with Australian snakes.

Considering a King Cobra can kill you in 30 mins and can bring down an elephant I wouldn't describe them as "barely venomous" compared to anything. Sounds venomous enough to me.
Encountered one of these buggers in Thailand earlier this year, they said with normal snakes don't move but if you ever see a King Cobra in the wild just run like hell!
Bastards are huge too, one we saw wasn't fully grown and could stretch for almost 5 metres!
I lost about 5kgs that day, 2 kgs from the effort to climb into the rafters, 3kgs of poo.

[Psyber]

That one obviously only stops Cobras, and they are barely venomous at all compared with Australian snakes.

Considering a King Cobra can kill you in 30 mins and can bring down an elephant I wouldn't describe them as "barely venomous" compared to anything. Sounds venomous enough to me.
Encountered one of these buggers in Thailand earlier this year, they said with normal snakes don't move but if you ever see a King Cobra in the wild just run like hell!
Bastards are huge too, one we saw wasn't fully grown and could stretch for almost 5 metres!
I lost about 5kgs that day, 2 kgs from the effort to climb into the rafters, 3kgs of poo.

It is all relative.
According to a published list I've read, the King Cobra is number 10 on the top ten venomous snakes list - the other 9 live in Oz.
The American rattlesnake is not even in the top 10.

But if you include sea snakes the list changes, and this list sneaks a few foreign ones in.
It seems to depend whose list you read.
I agree I wouldn't want to be bitten by any of them!

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[Sky Pilot]

an effective snake trap is a two litre plastic milk container. Leave a half a cup of milk in it and lay it on its side with the lid off. Brownie's will slip in because they love milk but once they have slaked their thirst they cant escape because that can't go backwards. They just cannot slither in reverse, so according to a mate of mine up in Quorn where the buggers are everywhere this Spring, use this method and when you trap one just whack it with a spade or a two-metre length of fencing wire. He has got five (yes, five) since the AFL GF when he first saw one and laid the trap.

[Squids]

Nice idea SP

[Squids]

I used full cream milk and had no luck. Do the snakes prefer the flavoured varieties?

[locky801]

I used full cream milk and had no luck. Do the snakes prefer the flavoured varieties?

probably gone up market to Farmers Union Iced Coffee

[Squids]

Bickfords iced coffee mix will do.

Will try again next weekend.

[Psyber]

buy a couple of Mongooses.

Is that the actual plural of mongoose?
Mongi? Mongoosi? Mongeese?

I assume it works as for the bird: one goose, two geese, hundreds of the hissing horrors.
(Actually I'm fond of them and used to breed the Toulouse variety - grey with red-orange beaks.)

[auto]

an effective snake trap is a two litre plastic milk container. Leave a half a cup of milk in it and lay it on its side with the lid off. Brownie's will slip in because they love milk but once they have slaked their thirst they cant escape because that can't go backwards. They just cannot slither in reverse, so according to a mate of mine up in Quorn where the buggers are everywhere this Spring, use this method and when you trap one just whack it with a spade or a two-metre length of fencing wire. He has got five (yes, five) since the AFL GF when he first saw one and laid the trap.

Apparently a UDL Vodka is just as good....this was from y'day on the road near the Troubridge Point lighthouse. Wriggled around for the five minutes we were watching and made no headway, on the way back half hour later it was still going. Dared the misses to go and help it but she declined.

[auto]

That one obviously only stops Cobras, and they are barely venomous at all compared with Australian snakes.

Considering a King Cobra can kill you in 30 mins and can bring down an elephant I wouldn't describe them as "barely venomous" compared to anything. Sounds venomous enough to me.
Encountered one of these buggers in Thailand earlier this year, they said with normal snakes don't move but if you ever see a King Cobra in the wild just run like hell!
Bastards are huge too, one we saw wasn't fully grown and could stretch for almost 5 metres!
I lost about 5kgs that day, 2 kgs from the effort to climb into the rafters, 3kgs of poo.

It is all relative.
According to a published list I've read, the King Cobra is number 10 on the top ten venomous snakes list - the other 9 live in Oz.
The American rattlesnake is not even in the top 10.

But if you include sea snakes the list changes, and this list sneaks a few foreign ones in.
It seems to depend whose list you read.
I agree I wouldn't want to be bitten by any of them!

Venomous Snakes.jpg

There's a few different lists ive seen, one is called relative toxicity of snake venom. It Ranks the Indian Cobra venom as 1 and ranks other snake venom compared to that. The inland Taipan has a relative toxicity of 50, with the Eastern Brown Snake at 12 from memory. Add to this that different venoms attack different systems of the body. Also Geography plays a part, as Queensland Eastern Browns are less toxic than Southern Browns. Also the Eastern Brown Snake (Pseudonaja Textilis) is now broken into 8 sub-species, each with its own subtle venom variations. I rpopose a new scale for dangerous snakes....1- run fast, 2-run really fast, 3- husssain bolt it out of there.

[Squids]

an effective snake trap is a two litre plastic milk container. Leave a half a cup of milk in it and lay it on its side with the lid off. Brownie's will slip in because they love milk but once they have slaked their thirst they cant escape because that can't go backwards. They just cannot slither in reverse, so according to a mate of mine up in Quorn where the buggers are everywhere this Spring, use this method and when you trap one just whack it with a spade or a two-metre length of fencing wire. He has got five (yes, five) since the AFL GF when he first saw one and laid the trap.

Some further research has given me the conclusion that this is a load of carp. Snakes do not like milk, it is a myth based on previous Indian religion. I need some proof SP or I am changing my attractants.

[Brodlach]

I was on the Gold Coast last week, sitting on a beach and not 100 metres away there was a brown snake. Report on the news that night that there have been many caught on beaches over the past week.

[Sky Pilot]

an effective snake trap is a two litre plastic milk container. Leave a half a cup of milk in it and lay it on its side with the lid off. Brownie's will slip in because they love milk but once they have slaked their thirst they cant escape because that can't go backwards. They just cannot slither in reverse, so according to a mate of mine up in Quorn where the buggers are everywhere this Spring, use this method and when you trap one just whack it with a spade or a two-metre length of fencing wire. He has got five (yes, five) since the AFL GF when he first saw one and laid the trap.

Some further research has given me the conclusion that this is a load of carp. Snakes do not like milk, it is a myth based on previous Indian religion. I need some proof SP or I am changing my attractants.

Perhaps try Old Spice or Brut 33

[Sky Pilot]

I was on the Gold Coast last week, sitting on a beach and not 100 metres away there was a brown snake. Report on the news that night that there have been many caught on beaches over the past week.

You could identify a brown snake from 100 metres away? I guess on a white sandy beach it might stand out a bit. Awesome!

[Footy Chick]

all the thousands of people screaming and running also might have made it a bit easier

[Brodlach]

I was on the Gold Coast last week, sitting on a beach and not 100 metres away there was a brown snake. Report on the news that night that there have been many caught on beaches over the past week.

You could identify a brown snake from 100 metres away? I guess on a white sandy beach it might stand out a bit. Awesome!

LOL, cops came and told people along the beach to keep away from this one and look out for any others that may come onto the sand