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There are snakes under my front porch...

15 years ago

I'm fixin to try pudgeder's mosquito concoction for mosquitos but thought I would blow off the deck and front porch and I'm blowing my silk flower arrangement on the porch and out flies a snake...OMG...I can feel my heart racing...I scream and my son comes out and goes searching and danged if he didn't see 3 or 4 of them under the porch...SOOOO....

I'm fixing to stay off the front porch for awhile...

I'll let you know how the mosquito concoction works out!

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glenda_al
15 years ago
What kind of snakes are they?
liz
Original Author
15 years ago
probably harmless but the one I glanced at sure looked like a copperhead...and boy was he quick!!
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lazypup
15 years ago
Obviously they are scary ones....LOL

I agree with Liz...ain't no snake gonna hurt me,,,but they might cause me to hurt myself getting out of range..
vannie
15 years ago
I went to a party today and one of the gals works for an exterminator, and she was telling about a house w/ snakes under it, and she said they threw a lot of moth balls under there and thte snakes were gone. I don't care what kind they are, they're all poisonous to me.
lisa_fla
15 years ago
Imagine having one in your garage!! While I was trying to figure out a way to shoe him out Sparky helped himself to the whole platter of meatballs I had ready to cook on the kitchen counter. It was not a good day! A couple of months back DD went in the garage and saw a snake slither under the freezer. I assume he's gone now :-)
glenda_al
15 years ago
How did the listerine work? Working for me, the second nite.
breenthumb
15 years ago
I don't care what kind they are, they're all poisonous to me.

My sentiments exactly, Vannie. We found one snake under our deck years ago and I called the zoo curator (we knew him) and he told me to put mothballs into a stocking and hang it under the deck. (It was a deck I could walk under) Daughters still laugh about finding me out there with tall boots and a rake hanging mothballs.

Friends said eating on the deck was like eating in grandma's closet.

For years I kept mothballs in coffee cans with holes poked into plastic lids top and bottom where I garden--just in case. Never saw another one.

We called an exterminator back in the 70's in our last house and many didn't do snake calls!
pudgeder
15 years ago
Flying snakes! That's a shocker. I'd be staying off the porch too!
liz
Original Author
15 years ago
well pudgeder...I haven't made your mosquito concoction cause after the snake fiasco it started raining...so I have all the ingredients...cheap mouthwash from the dollar tree...epsom salts and a beer...and I'm gonna go find some "Snakeaway" at lowes tomorrow...and when they come out I'm gonna have a kid waiting for them with an AXE!! I wont be using the front door anytime soon!!
glenda_al
15 years ago
oh, I didn't realize pudgeder had a mosquito concoction!
zeetera
15 years ago
LOL breenthumb.
SunnyDJ
15 years ago
I didn't hear about the concoction but want too....I did hear Listerine really works to keep the mosquitos away....
NOW what about keeping snakes away......We have had more in the yard this year than ever before and most of them are big....We have "harmless" black ones and the garden snake but I don't want them around, no matter what...
I did put moth balls in my flower beds to keep the outside cats from digging and that helped and come to think of it, there haven't been any snakes in the flowers, either......
Like breenthumb said, sitting on my patio is like being in a closet.....
liz
Original Author
15 years ago
Sunny..."Snakeaway"...is nothing but crushed up mothballs...but I'm not sure what happens once it's wet...there are some other stuff I've explored on line but will let hubster deal with them..of course he's not a real fan either!!

here is Pudgeder's concoction and I'm gonna try it later on today!

Posted by pudgeder (My Page) on
Fri, Jul 1, 11 at 17:21

I use a mixture of 1 part beer, 1 part listerine (or the cheapest brand) and 1 part epsom salts.

About 2 cups of each, put it in one of those sprayers you put on the end of your garden hose and spray the yard & house. Keeps the mosquitoes away until it rains.
jannie
15 years ago
Last year I saw 2 garter snakes, but no where near my house. Hate em (fear em).
pudgeder
15 years ago
Hope you are successful with your snake removal! Be careful!

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