Here is all about using sulfur for snake control.
The prospect of these reptiles hiding around or within your home is a frightful situation for many that they’ll do all it takes to get rid of such snake species.
The easiest control route to take is to place or apply a snake repellent before snakes even come around. This will be the normal and right thing to do if you live in a snake-infested neighborhood.
Now, there are several ways to repel snakes.
However, we’re interested in finding out if sulfur has any repelling effect on snakes. Does it?
You’ll find out everything there is to know about that.
Sulfur For Snakes: Does It Have Any Repellent Effect?
With the demand for snake-repellents come lots of claims about home remedies that work. This includes the use of sulfur as a snake repellent. However is this true?
Will applying sulfur have any effect on snake populations? The answer is not.
When you go online, you find lots of articles affirming the efficacy of sulfur as a snake repellent. That’s simply not true! There have been studies to that effect.
The results are the complete opposite of claims about sulfur being a good snake remedy.
So, if you’ve always sworn by the efficacy of sulfur as an effective snake deterrent, you might want to change your beliefs. Sulfur won’t get you the results you seek in terms of snake prevention.
However, that doesn’t mean that there’s no other solution.
Instead of using sulfur or any other chemical, you can adopt simple, yet effective DIY methods to make your home unattractive to these reptiles. So what are these methods?
Let’s discuss them in the next section.
Repelling Snakes Without Sulfur
With sulfur out of the question as a snake repellent, it’s necessary to find measures that actually work.
Luckily there are several of them. These are mostly simple, yet effective DIY actions you can carry out to safeguard your home and surroundings so what are they?
They include the following;
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Have a Perch Pole Installed
If you live in a snake-infested neighborhood, you might want to have a perch pole installed within your property.
What this helps achieve is that it serves to attract natural snake predators such as owls and hawks. However, you’ll need to have it well located to have the most impact.
Having a perch pole well placed has to do with installing the same in an open area. This allows predators have a good view of your yard and surroundings.
It’s a natural and surprisingly efficient way of dealing with snake problems.
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Move Bird Feeders or Stop Feeding
How does a bird feed connect with the snake’s presence?
In more ways than you can think. When birds feed, they scatter such seeds around. Now, rodents always hang around such areas to pick or feed on the scattered seeds.
This is where snakes come into the picture as they prey on these rodents.
As part of tackling the problem created, you’ll need to focus on the cause rather than the effect. Continuing to use the bird feeder will only worsen the situation.
Therefore, it’s best to either move the bird feeder as far away from your surroundings or stop feeding completely.
By doing this, you’ll notice a corresponding drop in snake presence (if you’ve seen them moving around in the past). As rodents find less incentive to come around, a decline in rodent population and presence means snakes will have to go in search of other favorable feeding spots.
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Feed Pets Indoors
Just like the bird feeder situation, feeding your pets outside will attract rodents as well as insects. These (rodents and insects) are food to snakes and will automatically attract or bring them around. You might want to change tactics by feeding your pets indoors.
With this action, there’s little to no incentive for snakes, to be around as rodents won’t be feeding on pet food. You should also go as far as properly storing pet food when they’re done eating.
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Seal Up Cracks
Are there cracks around your building’s foundations, sidewalks, or walls?
The presence of these will normally serve as hideouts for snakes. Also, such cracks may affect energy efficiency when using heating or cooling a home. This is so because such cracks serve as escape routes for energy.
It’s necessary to carry out a close inspection of your foundation, walls, and sidewalks.
All cracks and crevices should be sealed up. Sometimes, you might not be able to do a thorough job of identifying such cracks. However, there’s a way out.
Consider getting an energy audit. It helps to point out all cracks within your structure.
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Fencing
Will fencing your home help repel snakes? It will! However, such fencing must be installed in a certain way.
The fencing needs to be buried at a depth of a few inches below the ground. It should be made of ¼ inch or smaller rigid mesh. In the absence of a rigid mesh, consider using solid sheeting.
Now at the top of the fence, the fence should bend outwards at an angle. This makes it difficult for snakes to climb over. When they try to go beneath, the buried section stops them.
This might be the most expensive of the other snake repellent strategies mentioned so far.
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Your Lawn should Always Be Well-Trimmed
One of the attractions for snakes is an overgrown lawn.
This gives them the perfect cover to hunt for prey. With a short or trimmed lawn, snakes are exposed to all kinds of predators including coyotes and owls, etc.
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Trim Your Trees and Shrubs
Another way to make your home and surroundings less inviting to snakes is by having your trees and shrubs trimmed. Snakes will easily climb up low-reaching branches and travel all the way to your roof.
This is common for situations where branches extend to your roof.
It’s not surprising to have these reptiles going down your chimney. The best way to prevent such from happening is by trimming extended branches that reach your roof. Also, you’ll need to trim off low-lying branches.
While sulfur doesn’t do much to repel snakes, there are other ways of getting the job done. These mostly involve maintenance services such as those mentioned above.