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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?


What sort of snakes?
Tina



Grass snakes.

If you think the netting is a problem, then there are limited options.

If you want to keep it, you probably need to patrol it regularly to check
for snakes so you can release them. That would probably mean twice a day
so that might mean that you need to assess how much you value your time
over the life of the snakes. The other options would be to remove it,
or, alternatively, to lift it up off the ground a bit so the snakes can
slide under it but then those options probably wouldn't work too well for
any form of crop protection.

But, as I mentioned in my earlier response and which only seems to have
resulted in the thread immediatly moving away from the question asked,
this form of netting is used, and is well known as being a very effective
way of trapping snakes, ergo.......


I don't think I made it clear in my OP. The snakes have always been
around. We always use the same types of netting. But this year a lot of
the youngsters are getting trapped in it. Perhaps there are more of them
around this year.

Mea culpa - I misunderstood what you were asking. I thought you wanted
advice on how to stop them getting trapped and possibly dieing.