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How do I repel garter snakes?
First, Yes I know they're not venomous, not aggressive, and will eat spiders. I Don't Care.
I HATE snakes and have a family of them living in my yard. My nephews were able to find one of the babies and we relocated it, but there is at Least one very large one left, and I would guess more since it didn't have just one baby.
I've tried putting mothballs around the yard, but so far they've just ignored them. So I need other ideas (and calling an exterminator isn't an option, I don't want to murder them, just to make them go far away)
2 Answers
- Mongo KhanLv 69 years agoFavorite Answer
If they are living in your yard, you have provided a nice home for them. It could be a pile of wood or whatever. Get rid of their home and the snakes will find another one.
The larger one is probably the mother.
- daniel gLv 79 years ago
I don't know of anything that will repel these.(except humans, they are afraid of us)
If there are baby's around, there will be plenty of them if the birds don't get them.
Maybe if you quit hating these snakes (or deal with your fear of them) they wont bother you.
I played with these snakes as a kid, and my kids played with them.(they loved them to death)
Hating or fearing these snakes is just plain baseless. Maybe keeping one for a pet, you may come to realize they are not so bad after all.
One thing that might work is those 'scarecrow' owls. They will even keep mice and rats away.
Snakes don't have that great of eye sight so don't know how effective it would be.
Source(s): UC Irvine, entomology
