"Farm1" wrote in :

"Kathy" wrote in message
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We have a problem with snakes on our field this year. People are
finding them tangled up in netting around various crops.
Unfortunately we don't always get there in time to effect a release.

Anyone else got this problem?

It's a known technique for ridding the garden of highly venomous
snakes in Australia. Trap them with bird netting, then kill them with
a long handled shovel.



This is not Australia and we are lucky to have only one species which is
venomous in the UK. which is the adder. A shy, very rarely seen animal, let
alone getting bitten by one.
If I lived in Australia I would not sleep unless I had a long handled
shovel under my pillow

Baz