Anybody seeing more Snakes than usual? (no pics inside)

[LuckyStrike]

Just wondering if the above seems true for anyone else? May be all the rain? Perhaps more food sources or cover? May be their burrows are flooded?
I live in da "burbs", but have seen 4 in the past week around the house exterior and lawn... nonpoisonous, common small brown/ black snakes. i left 'em alone bc I figure they eat crickets, spiders and such.

Talked to some timber-cutting guys on 2 occasions that said those rattlebacked coppermoccasins are thick in the woods this year.
Observations?

 

[fordnut]

I live on a small lake. We have seem more snakes this year than in all the 17 years we have lived here.

I believe it is from all the rain and the higher than normal water table. It has ran them out of their normal places.

Steve

 

[Dave29461]

I'm seeing more rabbits along the route from Moncks Corner to Lake City so stands to reason more snakes to eat them. I noticed the increased rabbit population before the rains were so bad. I've also seen more snakes run over than in recent years.

 

[LuckyStrike]

Im ok w/ any snake that I see WHEN im on alert and should expect to see 'em... blowdowns, docks, boulders, treestands... but this one today was underneath a downspout guard that i moved while weed trimming, next to the azaleas..Yikes! Only bout a foot long when he rolled out. Need to get out more.

Turned out he was agreeable to live and let live...so we did. I did check him over for a triangular head and coloration.
I'm no herpetologist, but I once stayed in a Holiday Inn Express..

 

[Avtomat-Acolyte]

I see tons of crawfish walking around, actually.

 

[Tigerstripe]

Just wondering if the above seems true for anyone else? May be all the rain? Perhaps more food sources or cover? May be their burrows are flooded?
I live in da "burbs", but have seen 4 in the past week around the house exterior and lawn... nonpoisonous, common small brown/ black snakes. i left 'em alone bc I figure they eat crickets, spiders and such.

Talked to some timber-cutting guys on 2 occasions that said those rattlebacked coppermoccasins are thick in the woods this year.
Observations?

they eat more than crickets and such.

the non poisonus snakes eat poisonus snakes.

never kill a black or king snake.

there is a brown water snake with a red, matured, underside that eats poisonus snakes around water.

ive been in the woods a lot this year but have seen more in the past than this year. but maybe all the poisonus ones were eaten by the ones i left alone.

i have killed a couple of copperheads in the past few years.

 

[bigfutz]

Yes, in the Upstate, seeing more snakes than usual. And toads. And it seems the fireflies are coming back a little bit - haven't seen them in years it seems. And rain.

 

[wylie]

Everything is flourishing this year all this excess rainy weather, all the grass is growing like crazy plenty of snakes and fire ants are going crazy I have never seen so many fire ants a lot of new colonies that do not even have an ant mound yet everybody I know is getting stung by these evil creatures. Does anybody have any secret remedies to get rid of fire ants or to treat a stung

 

[bilall]

We use Amdro Fire Ant Bait and Firestrike. Just a three or four tablespoons and the mound dies in a couple of days.
I'm sure there are lots of good products, but this one has worked well for us.

 

[beerman]

I see tons of crawfish walking around, actually.

My wife encountered one last week while mowing the grass. It was a long ways from the swamp behind our house too.

We've seen a few more in the neighborhood than last year, and I've seen more at work than last year. I think the rain is pushing them out of their normal burrows and territory. Thankfully, I've only run into one poisonous snake this year. It was a copperhead in our subdivision that was in the process of eating a bird. His head got cut off and buried.

 

[tcox4freedom]

I live on a small lake. We have seem more snakes this year than in all the 17 years we have lived here.

I believe it is from all the rain and the higher than normal water table. It has ran them out of their normal places.

Steve

'^^^This^^^

All the rain & flooding issues have prey looking for higher & drier ground. Which usually means closer to developed areas that have better drainage. I've seen more of almost everything looking for a dry place to rest. (When the prey move, the predators follow.)

I've had all sort of critters coming around my house, barns & outbuildings.

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[Glockrunner]

Like deer, if the food sources increase so will the eaters......