Comments on: Brown Tree Snake (Boiga irregularis) — predicting the extent of the threat. http://landshape.org/enm/brown-tree-snake-boiga-irregularis/ The Power of Numeracy Wed, 16 May 2012 18:37:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Wyandra http://landshape.org/enm/brown-tree-snake-boiga-irregularis/#comment-5841 Wyandra Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:59:56 +0000 http://landshape.org/enm/?p=102#comment-5841 This may seem like a truly strange suggestion but I live in Queensland and at least 3 times in the last year or so we have found large snakes dead in our back yard entangled in the netting used to keep the birds off our fruit trees.It seems to occur with any fine synthetic netting of about 2 inch square but might work as well with other fibres and guages. They get tangled up and die trying to escape without any deliberate effort required - and I have never seen a bird die in the same netting. This may seem like a truly strange suggestion but I live in Queensland and at least 3 times in the last year or so we have found large snakes dead in our back yard entangled in the netting used to keep the birds off our fruit trees.It seems to occur with any fine synthetic netting of about 2 inch square but might work as well with other fibres and guages. They get tangled up and die trying to escape without any deliberate effort required – and I have never seen a bird die in the same netting.

]]> By: Anonymous http://landshape.org/enm/brown-tree-snake-boiga-irregularis/#comment-12159 Anonymous Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:59:00 +0000 http://landshape.org/enm/?p=102#comment-12159 This may seem like a truly strange suggestion but I live in Queensland and at least 3 times in the last year or so we have found large snakes dead in our back yard entangled in the netting used to keep the birds off our fruit trees. It seems to occur with any fine synthetic netting of about 2 inch square but might work as well with other fibres and guages. They get tangled up and die trying to escape without any deliberate effort required - and I have never seen a bird die in the same netting. This may seem like a truly strange suggestion but I live in Queensland and at least 3 times in the last year or so we have found large snakes dead in our back yard entangled in the netting used to keep the birds off our fruit trees.

It seems to occur with any fine synthetic netting of about 2 inch square but might work as well with other fibres and guages. They get tangled up and die trying to escape without any deliberate effort required – and I have never seen a bird die in the same netting.

]]> By: Wyandra http://landshape.org/enm/brown-tree-snake-boiga-irregularis/#comment-5840 Wyandra Mon, 01 Feb 2010 01:59:56 +0000 http://landshape.org/enm/?p=102#comment-5840 This may seem like a truly strange suggestion but I live in Queensland and at least 3 times in the last year or so we have found large snakes dead in our back yard entangled in the netting used to keep the birds off our fruit trees.It seems to occur with any fine synthetic netting of about 2 inch square but might work as well with other fibres and guages. They get tangled up and die trying to escape without any deliberate effort required - and I have never seen a bird die in the same netting. This may seem like a truly strange suggestion but I live in Queensland and at least 3 times in the last year or so we have found large snakes dead in our back yard entangled in the netting used to keep the birds off our fruit trees.It seems to occur with any fine synthetic netting of about 2 inch square but might work as well with other fibres and guages. They get tangled up and die trying to escape without any deliberate effort required – and I have never seen a bird die in the same netting.

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