Dundee sits on high, sandy ground with scrub, groves and lakes all within a short drive, and that mix brings a lot of snakes into yards. If one is in your garage, under the porch or coiled behind the pool equipment, our snake removal in Dundee, FL service sends a trained tech to catch it and take it away. We answer the phone 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, because snakes do not keep business hours.
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Most snakes you meet here are harmless and even useful. A few are not. Telling them apart from across the yard is hard, so treat every snake as if it could bite. Keep your distance, keep kids and pets inside, and watch where it goes. Never try to grab, pin or kill a snake. Most bites happen when people try to do exactly that. Call (904) 729-6285 and let us handle it.
Why Snakes Turn Up in Dundee Yards
East of town, Allen David Broussard Catfish Creek Preserve State Park protects scrub, sandhill and flatwoods, which are some of the best snake habitat left in Polk County. Closer in, old citrus groves sit right next to new subdivisions. When land gets cleared for houses, the snakes, rodents and lizards that lived there do not disappear. They move to the nearest cover, and that is often a garage, a shed or a landscape bed.
The many lakes in the area add water snakes to the mix. Homes with shoreline, retention ponds or canals see more of them, especially in warm months when they are hunting frogs and fish.
Venomous Snakes to Know in Polk County
Four venomous species live in Central Florida. Learn them, but do not get close enough to test your memory.
- Eastern diamondback rattlesnake. Heavy body, diamond pattern, most often in dry scrub and sandhill.
- Dusky pygmy rattlesnake. Small, gray with dark blotches, easy to miss in leaf litter.
- Cottonmouth (water moccasin). Thick, dark snake found near lakes and wet ditches.
- Eastern coral snake. Red, yellow and black bands, often in mulch and under debris.
Harmless Snakes We Remove Every Week
Most calls turn out to be one of these. The southern black racer is fast, black and nervous, and it is the snake most people see crossing a driveway. Rat snakes, including the corn snake and the yellow rat snake, climb well and sometimes end up in attics or soffits chasing rodents. You will also find garter snakes, ribbon snakes, ring-necked snakes and brown water snakes, the last one often mistaken for a cottonmouth along the water.
None of these are a threat to you, but nobody wants one in the laundry room. We catch them and release them following Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission rules.
Snake Removal Dundee FL Homeowners Trust
Every call starts with getting the snake out. Then we look at why it got in. A snake in the house almost always means an opening near ground level, or a rodent problem that drew it there.
- Capture. We remove the snake with proper tools, never with bare hands.
- Inspection. We walk the whole property, including garage door seals, weep holes and utility openings.
- Sealing. Gaps at slab level and around pipes are closed so the next one cannot follow.
- Advice. We point out cover and food sources in your yard that keep snakes coming back.
Keeping Snakes Out for Good
Snake-proofing is mostly about taking away hiding spots and closing doors they can fit through. Keep woodpiles and stacked pots off the ground and away from the house. Trim shrubs so you can see the base of your walls. Fix the rubber seal on the garage door. If you have rats or mice, solve that first, because a snake will keep coming back to a steady food supply. Pool cages need a look too. A torn screen panel or a gap under the door frame is all a racer needs to get onto the lanai, and once inside it will hide under furniture or planters.
Our wildlife exclusion service closes the low gaps that let snakes, rodents and other animals into garages and crawl spaces. It is the same work that keeps raccoons out of Dundee attics, just aimed lower on the building.
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Snake Removal Questions from Dundee Homeowners
Are rattlesnakes common near Dundee?
They are around, mostly in dry, sandy areas with scrub and palmetto. The state park land east of town and undeveloped ridge property both suit the eastern diamondback. Most homeowners never see one, but if you live on the edge of open land, watch your step at dusk and keep brush cleared back from the house and sheds.
I saw a dark snake by the lake. Is it a cottonmouth?
It might be, but brown water snakes are far more common around local lakes and get mistaken for cottonmouths all the time. Both are thick-bodied and dark. Do not get close enough to check. Note where it went and call us. If it is near a dock, boat ramp or play area, we can come out and remove it.
Do you handle snakes in Davenport and other nearby towns?
Yes. We cover Dundee and the surrounding Polk County area, including Lake Hamilton, Haines City, Winter Haven and Lake Wales. North along US-27, our Davenport wildlife removal service handles snakes in that area too. For everything we do around town, see our Dundee wildlife removal page.
Will you kill the snake?
No. We capture snakes and release native species following state rules. That means release on the property where it was caught, or relocation to a site of at least 40 contiguous acres in the same county with the landowner’s written permission. Harmless snakes eat rodents and pests, so moving them away from your house is better than killing them.
Request a Free Inspection in Dundee
Tell us what you are hearing or seeing and we will call you back to set up an inspection. For a snake in the house, a bat in a living space or any emergency, call (904) 729-6285 now — we answer 24 hours a day.