Looking for snake repellant tips? The snakes are out and on the move! While many of our local snakes are harmless, Fort Bend County has 3 varieties of snakes that are venomous.

First and second, Copperheads and Water Moccasins (cotton mouths) are both venomous pit vipers. Lastly, our third venomous snake is a coral snake. Corals snake venom is highly toxic. However, people are rarely bitten by them. They are small, and shy, and mostly live in leaf litter.

Copperheads are most commonly found in the spring and summer months, and their number one food source is a cicada. Copperheads will congregate around the base of oak trees waiting for cicadas to emerge from the ground to crawl up into the tree to shed their skins.

Water Moccasins are most often found close to water.

Repellant Tips:

All of these snakes are predators, and feed on things such as bugs, frogs, lizards, mice and birds. If you are seeing snakes in your yard, they are there looking for food.

If you leave your lights on at night, those lights attract bugs, which attract frogs, which attract the snakes, as a result. You can help prevent snakes around your house by removing food sources for animals such as mice by putting up your dog and cat food.

Turn off your landscape lights and porch lights, as those attract the bugs, and most importantly, keep your yard mowed, and the weeds and shrubs trimmed. If you don’t have a place for the predators to hide, they won’t stay around very long.

Looking for a snake repellent or  more snake repellant tips? Arcola Feed actually offers two products that are labeled to repel them! Come by and check it out!