Fist, I have no idea how a snake can crawl up an 8 foot wall but it appears I have garter snakes in the attic of my garage. They are not inside the building itself, just the attic. Other than getting up there and going "hand to hand" is there anything that will chase them out and away?

Sprinkle salt on their tails and it paralyzes them.

Moosetrot

I am having the garage re-roofed and the carpenters can see them crawling around on top of the insulation. I am tempted to just burn the building down. I don't care for snakes.

Drink a lil whiskey, grab the salt ,an go get em out.
They ain’t hurting nothing tho

Had to edit, was supposed to say hurting

I fixed it for you.

do you own a minnow trap?

look up snake traps I see a bunch of people using minnow traps they catch a bunch of snakes and release the Gardner snakes

you probably want a cricket or something in a small container with some holes in there as bait
I can't see that this guy is using any bait but he sets in run ways next to buildings

in another video he uses frogs and chicken eggs but that wouldn't be so much for a garder snake

searching snake traps I see a lot of glue board options basically just going for run ways

https://www.animaltrapsandsupplies....AzHIN1TQLGGT6GQn3CdWijSMdUEaAq94EALw_wcB

better snake traps from Tomahawk you can probably make something similar up from some hardware cloth

I see some wider flat ones also

Thank you! I will give it a shot and we still can't figure out where they got in.

Are you sure they are garters?

It's been my experience that the most likely to go up into structures is the rats. If so five bucks says you have a foodsource they are coming to. Rats, mice, bats, squirrels in my experience. Deal with that and the snakes go away.

However it could still be garters as they have communal dens for overwintering. Though I have no personal experience with that. It does seem to be to early on the year for that.

Yes, they are absolutely Garter Snakes and we saw several. There is no food source that I am aware of in the attic or garage and I have NEVER had a mouse inside.

Good grief. Gloves and a pillowcase.

Mike

Then it must be the denning thing. Wish I could offer an answer but I can't other than the track your on to seal it up tight.

I read somewhere that cloves and some other things like that repel them. Being the ridgecap was open I threw 4 bag's of Grandpa Gus mouse repellent in there that seems to contain many of the same ingredients. It was worth a shot.

Most females send out pheromones when it is time for the boys to come a play if there are several snakes present. The smell you can not mistake for sure

One time the power went out at the cottage and when it came back the stove clock made a tick-tick sound.
Seems a large garter snake climbed up the inside of the stove to check it out......zap-zap when it went over the fuse box.

If there was bats up there then they were going for them as well is another idea.

Hot glue some crickets/hoppers on a # 1 pan

I've had success with glue traps.

Strategical placed sticky board rat boards. They crawl on and are stuck

What fun is that when we could probably get him to burn the building down

The big glue traps work. A bit like blind setting for mink...choke them down (I know, I know....it scaled a wall to get there how can you choke it down). Use some cooking spray to release it. I HAVE had mice in the house as well as a "non target" snake...that's how I know this works.

What they said^^^ musta been typing at the same time!

Here in the Sandhills they like to den up in the walls of houses for the winter by the buckets full. It really bothers some folks.

Check in the Archives under " Snake in the basement"
found it under "ForesterR" post in 2010