A resident of Wyman Street in Jamaica Plain filed a 311 report about the snake in the front yard, although the report does not state if the resident is actually complaining or just posting an appreciation of its sleekness.
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Eastern garter snake
By AndreaH
Sat, 07/18/2020 - 12:13pm
It’s an eastern garter snake. They are extremely common in the area, and harmless if you aren’t a toad, salamander or worm.
Garter snakes are good, because they eat vermin,
By mplo
Mon, 07/20/2020 - 5:36pm
such as mice, worms, rats, etc. If and when a human gets bitten by a non-poisonous snake, it's no free lunch either, however, since a non-poisonous snake often injects bacteria into the area of the bite and promotes infection, or, in some people, an allergic reaction that can be dangerous.
Get it together, Walsh
By JP Resident
Sat, 07/18/2020 - 12:17pm
There is no room for nature in this city. I'd recommend a task force to deal with this problem. This is an abomination.
Sincerely,
Jamaica Complain
Garter snake
By Allstonian
Sat, 07/18/2020 - 12:23pm
That's a lovely specimen of a garter snake, is what that is.
(Mostly they eat bugs, though.)
Shows you what I know about snakes ...
By adamg
Sat, 07/18/2020 - 12:26pm
Thanks, now to edit the original post to take out the reference to its non-rat-eating ways.
Snakes in a plain
By anon
Sat, 07/18/2020 - 1:16pm
Snakes in a plain
You mean they didn't demand that the city...
By perruptor
Sat, 07/18/2020 - 1:58pm
get these motherfucking snakes out of the Plain?
Wrong neighborhood
By Charles Bahne
Sat, 07/18/2020 - 2:49pm
That was Southie where they drove out the snakes. But not this year, Padraig's parade got cancelled due to the virus.
Padraig said it first
By Bob Leponge
Sat, 07/18/2020 - 6:09pm
“By the grace of God, such a surfeit of adders and serpents upon this fair isle hath driven me to the edge of madness. Verily have I had my fill of them.”
(I know, Padraig didn’t speak that way; my language is about 500 years off. So complain to the authorities already.
)
Ghetto Snake
By Don't Panic
Sat, 07/18/2020 - 7:02pm
Thank God they don't have a Red Line.
Snake Balls!
By SwirlyGrrl
Sun, 07/19/2020 - 5:50pm
I seem to remember someone posting video of a snake ball in their shrubbery a few years back.
Creeeepy.
If only...
By Herp Derp
Sun, 07/19/2020 - 11:16am
I wish I saw more snakes and more species that I do.
I used to see a black rat snake now and then as a child.
I would support a repopulation program to keep the chipmunk population in check.
This (ignorance? possessiveness? destructive habits?) is why we can’t have nice things... like snakes! Venomous snakes excepted near homes and schools.
When people expand into their spaces...
By lbb
Mon, 07/20/2020 - 10:26am
Makes sense, but then people gotta not expand their homes and schools into the snakes' habitat.
Is that psycho still around, the one who was out to kill all the rattlesnakes in the Blue Hills?
People expand their homes into wild animals' inhabitats
By mplo
Mon, 07/20/2020 - 5:39pm
all the time. That's been going on forever. The same thing is true when people go hiking or camping in wild animal country. As more and more people either opt to move to live farther out into the woods and closer to nature, or just go hiking/camping in wild animal country, conflicts between wild animals and humans will continue to increase, and not just with snakes, either.
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