Snakes of the Granite Belt include:

Blind snakes

Blind snakes of the Granite Belt include:

• Ramphotyphlops nigrescens - Blackish blind snake (C)

 

Pythons

Pythons that occur on the Granite Belt include:

• Morelia spilota variegata - Carpet python (C)

 

Colubrid snakes (non-venomous)

Non-venomous snakes of the Granite Belt include:

• Boiga irregularis - Eastern brown tree-snake (C)
• Dendrelaphis punctulata - Green tree snake (C)

 

Elapid snakes (venomous)

Venomous snakes of the Granite Belt include:

• Acanthophis antarcticus - Southern death adder (R)
• Cacophis squamulosus - Golden-crowned snake (C)
• Demansia psammophis - Yellow-faced whip snake (C)
• Furina diadema - Red-naped snake (C)
• Hemiaspis signata - Marsh snake (C)
• Hoplocephalus stephensi Stephen’s banded snake (R)
• Pseudechis porphyriacus - Red-bellied black snake (C)
• Pseudonaja textilis - Eastern brown snake (C)
• Rhinoplocephalus nigrescens - Eastern small-eyed snake (C)
• Vermicella annulata - Bandy-bandy (C)

 

Living with snakes

Like other natural predators snakes are important in regulating populations of their prey. Without such predators pest animal populations such as rat and mice populations would spiral into plague proportions.

Although most will be just passing through, to minimise such presence in your garden, keep:

• grass mown and garden debris to a minimum
• wood heaps away from the house
• under the house well sealed or very clear and dry
• seal cracks in concrete which may shelter lizards - rockeries are a major attraction for lizards (snake prey) and
• have a well-maintained paling fence.

To encourage a snake to move on it's way, advice from our rangers is as follows:

• Put 2 or 3 pairs of denim trousers on
• Wear gumboots
• Move up behind the snake and stamp your feet and make a lot of noise.  

The snake will move away from the vibration as much as want to move away from the noise. 

NOTE: The Granite Belt Wildlife Carers do not perform snake relocations.