Not exactly an exciting story - a couple of years ago,...I was workin' around my tool shed/barn and smelled somethin' dead.....so I started lookin' around and found the source - it was a blue racer that had slithered into a stack of folded monofilament bird netting that I cover my peach trees with.
The mesh in this netting is about 3/4" square - maybe 1"....but it was large enough for this snake's head to be able to go through...and it had tried to get in between the folds ( there were several nets stacked together).....and started thru one of the mesh.....making it about a foot in length when its body diameter was too big to go thru.....at that time the mesh filament worked like a gill net....trapping the snake because its scales hung on the filaments of the net as it tried to back out of the mesh. I felt so bad for it...because I don't know how long ot took for it to eventually die.....but I'm sure it was trapped for a while before it died....which was so unfortunate. I removed the dead snake and put the netting in a different location so it couldn't happen again
I've seen many different types of snakes on our property.....1st blue racer and we lost him. I don't bother any of the non- venomous snakes since I know they are beneficial
