How do you rid snakes out of your garden? and Garden mothing #12, 22 April

How do you rid snakes out of your garden?

I love to garden but I have a real problem. We live by the National Forest out in the country- 6 acers. I don't mind the black snakes but we found Copperhead babies last week along with a few unknowns.. A lady in our area died from a snake bite last year while she was gardening. I need to tend to my flowers...help! We mow our grass regularly but a large field beside us is growing up and we are not able to ask the owner to mow it.Any ideas please?


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Answer by justme
moth balls?

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Garden mothing #12, 22 April


Purple Thorn, Selenia tetralunaria, with lilac background.

This was the best mothing night of the year so far. No new species for the garden, but plenty of first sightings of the year:

Pebble Hook-tip 1 NFY
Chinese Character 1 NFY
Red Twin-spot Carpet 4 NFY
Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet 1
Garden Carpet 1
Shoulder-stripe 1
Currant Pug 2 NFY
Common Pug 2 NFY
Brindled Pug 1 NFY
Double-striped Pug 2
Yellow-barred Brindle 1 NFY
Purple Thorn1 NFY
Waved Umber 2 NFY
Pale Prominent 2 NFY
Ruby Tiger 1
Least Black Arches 1 NFY
Shuttle-shaped Dart 3 NFY
Common Quaker 4
Clouded Drab 2
Hebrew Character 4

Micros:
Twenty-plume Moth 2

Plus the first cockchafers of the year (2).

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