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 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:43:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Wyandra http://landshape.org/enm/brown-tree-snake-boiga-irregularis/comment-page-1/#comment-180644 Wyandra Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:59:56 +0000 http://landshape.org/enm/?p=102#comment-180644 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.<br><br>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-page-1/#comment-179850 Wyandra Mon, 01 Feb 2010 01:59:56 +0000 http://landshape.org/enm/?p=102#comment-179850 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.<br><br>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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