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Y’all got a lot of poisonous snakes, we have rattlesnakes and cottonmouth here, but we are covered in bull snakes that eat other snakes, and roadrunners that eat snakes, very rare to see the poisonous ones, might be worth getting some bull snakes or king snakes.

We've had a mild winter and a few weeks in the 60's and few of days in the 70's so far, but a cold front came through late last week and it only made it upper 20's today. It's been an open winter this year with the exception of 3 weeks of January. The snakes have bitten my dogs 4 times in the last 20 + years, and all have been from Oct. till March

I’m thinking you have posted that pic before. That is one of the biggest coral snakes I have ever seen a pic of.
It’d make a dandy hat band! Unreal

Yeah, I killed it last summer.

Hell it'd make a belt... The barrel of the revolver is pretty big around, but the snake was quite a bit bigger in diameter. Never saw a coral snake that big before. Mostly they are skinny and 2 foot long here.

+1 for moth balls had a problem once in stone wall i have, dumped a box of moth balls all over it, one came out right away and have seen any since

This is one of the best snake repellants I've ever used. Charter Arms 22Mag with snake shot.



It will take all the squirm right out of anything from this size



to this size, with no problems...

+1 for charter arms

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Come on.....nobody going to point out that it's a milk snake, not a coral snake?!

LHS

Man, that’s weird. October down here can be bad down here for sure, as they get active again. They love to lay out in the open and soak up the sun. This can be the case into the first couple weeks of November. After that, I never see poisonous snakes until at least April. For whatever reason, I see poisonous snakes the most in May and September. It surprises me that they get going in Michigan in March. I lived in the Grand Rapids area for four years and never saw a poisonous snake. I guess I was pretty lucky!

I was sitting here saying to myself -red touches yellow, dangerous fellow. Red touches black, won't fight back. But it looks more like a King snake instead of a Milk snake to me.

Coral. Huge, at that

They are rare and most people in Michigan never see one. I think the eastern massauga is on the US endangered species list but it seems I live in an area with a local population the damn things. The first time 1 of my dogs was bitten the vet told me he hadn't seen a snake bite in over 20 years.
https://www.michigan.gov/dnr/education/michigan-species/reptiles/massasauga

I hear putting.out tick granules repels snakes.

Sulfa pwdr burns there belly supposedly

Polecat, that’s a wicked looking rattle, protected snake, don’t think I ever heard of that either, SSS

Barry, that's the longest Coral I've ever seen, and the coloration of those Copperheads is bothersome, especially among dried leaves. That must be fun in early autumn. We don't have those out here, and the local dogs are fortunate.

The OP question about deterrent - have never known an effective substance/chemical to apply. Our best deterrent for these rattlers are the bull and king snakes we try to befriend and persuade to stay around. The local Road Runner is good on the little/young ones but have never seen him tackle a sizable rattler.

I think those Eastern Massasuaga are listed as endangered but not protected.

It's 100% coral snake.

https://animalia.bio/texas-coral-snake

You might consider planting a tree to shade that area so the snakes don't go there to sun themselves in early spring.

I'd release some kingsnakes. Other than that, keep grass cut low and get rid of any debris/junk piles.