Olive House Snake (Lamprophis inornatus) - non-venomous and harmless to humans.
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CORRECTION: I incorrectly identified this snake as a "Common Brown Water Snake (Lycodonomorphus rufulus) in the video.
I was called out to remove a small unidentified snake from Camps Bay today. It turned out to be an Olive House Snake - these guys are nocturnal and tend to be a uniform olive green, olive gray, light brown, or brownish black to black in color, with underparts uniformly dark as above or slightly lighter.
They are oviparous, laying 5 - 15 eggs in summer.
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Mole Snake (Pseudaspis cana) - non-venomous, but can inflict a painful bite.
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A Melkbosstrand resident called me about this snake that he saw under his pool decking earlier today.
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Boomslang (Dispholidus typus) - venomous and very dangerous.
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Some Melkbosstrand residents saw this Boomslang curled up in some bushes next to their DSTV dish, and I was able to safely relocate it for them.
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Boomslang are known for their strikingly large eyes - the largest of any African snake. Females are light to olive brown with dirty white to brown bellies, whereas males may have a variety of colors but usually present dark green on top with yellow bellies and black markings in-between their belly scales.
Shy and diurnal (active during the day), they spend most of their lives in trees and shrubs where they hunt eggs, birds, frogs, chameleons, and other tree-dwelling lizards.
Their venom is haemotoxic, which means that it affects the clotting mechanism in blood and leads to severe internal and external bleeding, or even haemorrhage if untreated. Although potent, the venom is slow-acting and may take more than 24 hours to produce serious symptoms - an effective anti-venom is available in some locations.
There are two common myths about the Boomslang: firstly, that they drop from trees onto people who walk by (they don’t), and secondly that because they’re rear-fanged they can only bite you on your little finger (they are rear-fanged, but can open their jaws 170 degrees and bite you almost anywhere on your body).
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Rain Spider (Sparassidae palystes) - has a painful bite, but not dangerous.
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A Parklands North resident called me about this large spider she found on her wall last night.
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A member of the Huntsman Spiders family, Rain Spiders are free-running, ground-living arachnids often found in built-up areas, trees, under bark, in rock crevices, and on vegetation.
Rain Spiders are harmless to humans and can be from 6-36 mm in size. They are easily recognizeable because of their size, the banded patterning on their legs, and the white "moustache" on their cephalothorax (head & thorax).
Their venom is not deadly to humans, and comparable to a beesting.
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Mole Snake (Pseudaspis cana) - non-venomous, but can inflict a painful bite.
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I was called out by a someone who found this juvenile (baby) Mole Snake outside their office block in Bellville this afternoon.
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Mole Snakes are found in a variety of habitats, even mountainous regions and deserts, but they're particularly common in sandy scrub-covered and grassveld regions.
They spend most of their time underground, pushing their way through soft sand in search of moles and other rodents. Viviparous, they give live birth to anywhere between 25-50 babies in late summer.
Interestingly, juvenile (young) mole snakes have a variety of patterns and colors that they lose completely once they reach adulthood.
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Mole Snake (Pseudaspis cana) - non-venomous, but can inflict a painful bite.
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I was called by a business in Montague Gardens this morning to collect a small snake they found in their factory.
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Mole Snakes are found in a variety of habitats, even mountainous regions and deserts, but they're particularly common in sandy scrub-covered and grassveld regions.
They spend most of their time underground, pushing their way through soft sand in search of moles and other rodents. Viviparous, they give live birth to anywhere between 25-50 babies in late summer.
Interestingly, juvenile (young) mole snakes have a variety of patterns and colors that they lose completely once they reach adulthood.
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