Snake Eggs in my Garden
 

I haven’t met the proud parents yet but they left a treasure trove of eggs in my sprinkler valve box. I have seen some black racers at a neighbors house but never at mine
I am not sure what I should do with these. I know I don’t want the property to be inundated with snakes
I didn’t count them but there are a lot of eggs!
Any suggestions?

Get rid of them if you don't want in your yard. Destroy, or take to a park. Once laid, snakes do not "tend" them any more. They will hatch on their own. I you move them, try to place in near same position as found. (not real easy to do) They will hatch between 45 & 90 days.

Thank you

Great with some Bacon 🥓

First glance I thought this was about an illegal craps game.

Yum yum.

get rid of them

you may have seen some Black Racers in the neighborhood...but you can't be sure that these eggs are their eggs....could be eggs left by a viper with a venomous bite...we do have them in TV

My wife hates snakes

If it were my yard, I'd get rid of them quickly

For those of us that would not want to handle the eggs, would the extermination company handle a call like this? Has anyone used a snake removal service?

If they're just Black Racer eggs, leave them be. The snakes are good for the landscaping. They eat the pest bugs that destroy gardens. They also eat lizards and small birds. And these snakes are in turn eaten by hawks and similar. They're part of the ecosystem and as long as you don't try to hurt them, they won't defend themselves by biting you. They are only aggressive to their food source and humans are not their food source.

Ok but I am going to have a lot of them

Black Racers will bite if cornered but are not poisonous.
If it were me I would leave them be and keep the well cover open just a bit so when they do hatch they are able to get out easy. They won't all hatch at once, and will scatter for food, and won't hang out as a family. You might have a couple that will stick around but you will hardly ever notice them. Obviously your yard or neighbors was the mothers home turf, when was the last time you saw one on your property?
Steve

Well, actually no vipers lay eggs, so no worries there. Coral snakes are the only venomous species in the area that lays eggs but their clutch sizes are not anywhere near as large as you are describing so that’s pretty unlikely.
As far as your yard being inundated with snakes, that’s not like likely to happen, for several reasons. Mostly because your yard likely can’t support that many snakes. You also have to account for those that will become prey, starve, and just die due to other natural selection based causes. Also, many will certainly dissipate in search of their own territory in other yards.

If you haven’t moved them just leave them be. They can only do good things for your yard via natural pest control :)

No snakes of any kind on my property, thank you. That is what we have the preserves for. No free rent for those who do not help pay the property tax.... ;)

There God's creatures, let them enjoy life as god intended.:pray:

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And no way did God intend snakes to be on my property. Otherwise He wouldn’t have let me buy the place, knowing me .... although I did have some beautiful reptiles in my classroom.

never

That’s what I’m thinking
But I need an expert for plan B to remove all these snakes

LOL
I’m sure your students with had fun with these

Did he not also create ....
 

And did he not also create Alligators, Black Widow Spiders, Venomous snakes, rats etc.
Who wants those in your yard?

Can you post a picture?

I was told that the black racer was protected. We have them in the yard but they do not set up housekeeping, they move on. Let them be, they will hatch and move on.

They will leave your property
 

The black snakes usually leave your property and go on their own to establish their own somewhere else, leave it be

I never saw them on my property. I saw one under a neighbors outdoor storage bench when it was removed from her garden. Also another neighbor two houses down removed three from a sprinkler box

I’ll try later but I don’t like to be within 10 feet of the clutch

If you have Black snakes, you won't have Rattlesnakes. Leave the eggs alone. Yes, there are eastern Rattlesnakes here. More deadly than Western. I killed a 5 footer several years ago. They have enough venom to kill 24 adults. Shall we lock down?

No! You were misinformed.

Check to make sure they’re not under a protection list as many things are here

Had a large black racer in my hedges (didn't know it at the time) and started trimming with the electric hedge trimmer...caught him in his midsection. After a few days, a turkey vulture untangled him from the branches and took him away for his meal. You never know what's in your hedges. Be careful!

You're lucky!
 

Would love to have some little Racers around here. They may occasionally startle you, but they are great at getting rid of pests.

They already live on your property. You just don't ever see them. And - they DO pay rent, by eating a lot of the bugs and vermin you also don't ever see. Thank them for that.

Everything's good with bacon! :)

The snakes love those boxes. They aren’t poisonous but some people would say kill them. It’s up to you. They catch critters but can be a big nuisance

Please post a picture

Agree!

Leave the nest alone. This is FL and snakes were here before us and will be after us. They are part of nature. Probably a Garter snake or a Black racer.

And the dinosaurs were here before us, and the volcanoes... we are not going backwards. Wild animals are supposed to be in the wild and domesticated animals are supposed to be with people. Not the other way around. Like people, they are only welcome on my property by invitation.

They were "in the wild" until............................well you know the story.
Steve

If you take the they-were-here-first, the logical conclusion is, people are generally bad for them, let’s get rid of people. There is no animal or insect that would do that to themselves.

Let nature be black racers are awesome. Do you ever notice all the rat baits all over the villages? Rats bad-black racers good.