To discourage them from taking up residence on your property, start by eliminating their desired environments. Make sure your lawn is mowed and not overgrown with high weeds. Cut back overgrowth. Keep log piles and compost heaps a safe distance from your house. Use wire mesh fences at ground level around crawl spaces or your garden to keep snakes out of those places. Reducing the rodent population which is their main food supply will also send them elsewhere to eat. If you still find one slithering across your lawn, call the local Animal Control people to come remove it from your property.
Snake away, moth balls supposedly, ammonia, snake crystals, yellow sulfur powder. Any of these things. I would recommend snake away. It can be bought at Home Depot, lowes, or Walmart. Just make sure you don't have snakes in your yard when you surround the area with it or they won't leave.
the king snake
tread on it
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That depends. The term black snake can apply to many different species of snake. The black rat snake, Pantherophis obsoletus, sometimes called the black snake, is indeed a rat snake.
The longest black snake in North America is named the black rat snake. The record size recorded of this black rat snake is eight feet in length. Which makes the black rat snake is the record longest.
No.
The gray rat snake can have such markings, and even the common black rat snake can show gray bands when distended.
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no but will make you sick
Probaly a black rat snake. ------ Black rat snakes are common in the southern US and are not venomous.
black rat snake
Rat snakes are black,yellow and gray. black ones are from new england.they are harmless.
Snakes, including rat snakes, are reptiles.
Rat snakes are generally black whereas corn snakes are orangey yellowy and look like ground up corn.
They're part of the Colubridae