Re:Sea snakes are washing up on New Zealand’s shores
by BrissyCoder on Sunday August 15, 2021 @11:23PM
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Live Australia (where I think the snakes are probably much more venomous than NE US?). Have young children so any snake I see on my property other than a green tree snake will be executed.
Re:Sea snakes are washing up on New Zealand’s shores
by happytoexplain on Thursday August 26, 2021 @05:04PM
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There's a universe of difference between "kill all snakes" and "kill snakes on your property if you have children and live in Australia and aren't sure it's non-venomous".
Re:Sea snakes are washing up on New Zealand’s shores
by philliphaydon on Monday August 16, 2021 @12:14AM
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I was living in bronte in Sydney and heard a ruckus one morning, family next door with 4 young kids screaming. About 20m later the father came out with a shovel and a snake on it that came up through the toilet bowl, was the 4yo that discovered it. I don’t know what kind of snake it was but that would be enough for me to not want to raise kids in Australia lol.
Not only are snakes fascinating to anyone who has a clue, they are also quite helpful.
After building gardens, we had a minor plague of voles (kind of mouse-like, but eating plants and behaving a bit like moles) eating the plant roots - in the spring, just go touch a plant and it falls over, it's rootball having been eaten back to the size of a tennis ball.
The next summer we started seeing garter snakes, and several years later a milksnake (I live in the Northeastern US). The voles aren't 100% gone, but mush less of a problem.
Watching an ecosystem balance itself is wonderous.