den of vipers = ‘I kept finding snakes’: more than 90 rattlesnakes found under California home , the only venomous snake found in northern

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“I kept finding snakes for the next almost four hours,” Wolf said Friday. “I thought, ‘Oh, good, it was a worthwhile call’ but I was happy to get out because it’s not nice, you run into spider webs and dirt and it smells crappy and it’s musty and you’re on your belly and you’re dirty. I mean, it was work.”

But the work paid off. He used a 24in (60cm) snake pole to remove 22 adult rattlesnakes and 59 babies when he first visited the home in the Mayacamas Mountains on 2 October. He returned another two times since and collected 11 more snakes.

All the snakes were northern Pacific rattlesnakes, the only venomous snake found in northern California, he said.