Allpest - Perth WA - Pest Control for Termites, Whiteants, Spiders, Cockroaches, Rodents, Bedbugs

Information & Safety

The most commonly found snakes in Perth are dugites and tiger snakes. Tiger snakes are most commonly found in vegetated areas in wetlands. Dugites are most commonly found in the drier bushland areas. Both species feed primarily on small mammals (rodents), frogs and lizards. Snakes are active during the day and in the warmer periods of the year they are also active at night time.

When you encounter a snake, the following precautions and actions should be observed.  

• Snakes can be venomous, it is important to be calm and think rationally when in a snake situation.
• Most snake bites occur when a snake is accidentally stepped on or an untrained or inexperienced person attempts to catch the snake.
• Do not approach the snake or aggravate it in any way.
• Snakes will most often settle and calm down in darkness, if safely possible confine the snake to an area and turn off lights if in a room.
• If a snake is cornered, it will attempt to leave area the same way it came in. If you are standing between the snake and the exit then it may seem as though the snake is coming towards you, when in fact it is just trying to leave.
• Stand still. Snakes are used to being in the bush where not a lot moves, any movement will make the snake nervous and more likely to bite in defence.
• As a predator, snakes have fast accurate reflexes. If a snake strikes at you but misses, the likelihood is that the snake has missed you as a warning strike.
• Snakes can be venomous, it is important to be calm and think rationally when in a snake situation.

You can help prevent snakes from becoming a presence in specific areas by carrying out rodent baiting which removes their food source and proofing which removes their desired habitats.

Allpest provides an emergency snake removal service, where we can provide an immediate response to any snake situation. We have on staff a number of CALM registered snake handlers who have the training and are provided with suitable equipment to safely catch, transport and release snakes back into suitable bushland. Additionally Allpest has a number of snake traps that are available for use where the presence of a snake is known but is unable to be found.