On the capture methods and key points of snake species

Snakes should be caught according to the habitat environment, snake activity rules and snake molting time to find snakes, and to choose the best snake catching method to catch snakes, which is not only easy to find snakes, but also easy to catch. There are many ways to catch snakes, but you must be careful when catching snakes to prevent snake injuries. Here are a few common capture methods.

1. Looking for a Snake Nest

Snake-hunters can use snake droppings and slough to guide them, that is, they can find their habitat near snake droppings or slough. After late autumn every year, the activities of all kinds of snakes gradually decrease. In cold winter, snakes enter their caves and hibernate. This is a good time to catch snakes. Snake holes are generally in high field bases, ponds or mounds of holes, and sometimes snakes hibernate in old rat holes on slopes and by the water. Snake holes are distinguished by the fact that the holes are smooth and face south or east, rarely west. According to the amount, color and shape of snake dung outside the cave, the number and type of snakes in the cave can be determined. For example, cobra dung is yellow-green and strips or nodes; bungarus dung is stucco color with scales and is rotten pile; bungarus dung is black and scattered, sometimes scales are found; rat dung is green-white and smashed into strips; mouse dung mud is white and granular, similar to rat dung; three-rope snake dung is strip "zigzag" shape. After confirming that there are snakes in the snake hole, you can take the method of attracting snakes out of the hole to catch them. The following methods are usually used to lure snakes out of holes.

(1) To lure snakes out of their holes. 500 grams of frogs will be crushed into frog mud, and then put frog mud into the hole, when the snake smell frog meat fishy smell, out to feed when captured. Also available coffee 50 grams, pepper 25 grams, egg white 3 grams, flour 50 grams, mixed into a group. Make a few more medicine groups, choose the place where the snake often moves, dig a pit 1 meter deep and 2 meters wide. Smooth plastic sheets were laid around the pit, and the medicine balls were sleeved on a 1.5-meter-long thin rod, and the other end of the thin rod was inserted into the center of the pit. Snakes within 30 meters smell it and fall into the pit. Snakes that fall into pits are caught with small nets or sprayed with drunken snake medicine.

(2) forcing the snake out of its hole. Spray irritant gas into the snake hole, or smoke the hole, or fill gasoline, or water to force the snake out of the hole.

2. Tool Capture

In early spring and late autumn, snakes are concentrated and snake catching is convenient. To prevent snake injuries, snake-catching tools should be used when catching snakes. There are several ways to use tools to catch snakes.

(1) Neck pressing method. Grasp the tail of the snake with your left hand, and quickly use a kind of wooden fork, thin bamboo pole, or stick with your right hand to press the snake's neck from behind. If you don't press the neck correctly, you can press any part of the snake's body first, and then shift it to its neck. To catch it, press down on the neck. Then use the thumb and index finger of your right hand to pinch the snake's neck. Don't pinch too tight, so as not to loosen and unable to move the position. If the snake is too tight, it will often cause the snake to resist desperately and it is difficult to deal with it.

(2) Fork snake law. Use a wooden stick 1~2 meters long, one end bifurcated, the fork angle is about 60°, the front end nail has a hard and elastic rubber, so as to clamp without damaging the snake body. When a snake is found, the snake-catcher approaches the snake quietly, holds the snake's neck with a fork, and then catches the snake's head and neck with his hand.

(3) Snake clamping method. Use special snake pliers or snake clips, the handle of the snake pliers or snake clips is required to be longer, and the inside of the pliers or clips is slightly curved. When catching snakes, clamp or clamp them from the back to the neck and put them into the snake container.

(4) The noose method. Use a bamboo pole through the center to penetrate the nylon rope, tie a slipknot on the head, wrap the snake neck with the slipknot from behind the snake, and pull the rope in your hand to make the snake head difficult to move and arrest.

(5) Tank arrest method. The jar is buried underground where poisonous snakes often enter and exit. The mouth of the jar is level with the ground. Frogs and the like are put in it as bait. When the snake enters it, it is difficult to escape, so it can be captured.

(6) Net bag method. On the head of a 2-meter-long bamboo pole, install a wire ring with a diameter of 25 cm, sew a long cylindrical bag with a sharp bottom to net the poisonous snake, and then shake the net handle to make the bag wrap around the wire ring, so that the snake cannot escape.

(7) Cover method. Cover the snake head with a net bag, straw hat or clothes, catch or step on its body with hands or feet, and put it into a container or bag.

(8) Illumination. Snakes are mostly photophobic, at night with spotlights or strong flashlight light irradiation snake eyes, the snake's eyes will be dim when the snake caught in containers or bags.