Snake Catcher Epping
If you need a snake catcher in Epping, CALL NOW on 0418 633 474. Urban Reptile Removal covers Epping year-round, seven days a week. Move children and pets clear of the area, but keep your eyes on the snake from a safe spot. The most useful thing you can do before we arrive is maintain visual contact — a snake that has been watched is far easier to find. You don’t need to take a photo or identify the species. Just watch where it goes.
About Epping
Epping is a large, established suburb where older residential streets, mature gardens and substantial tree cover sit alongside newer townhouses and apartment developments. Although heavily developed around the town centre and railway station, the suburb retains important pockets of bushland and several connected creek and drainage corridors.
Terrys Creek forms the most significant wildlife corridor through the area, running from Epping towards Lane Cove National Park. Properties near Terrys Creek, Dence Park, Mobbs Lane Reserve and the bushland adjoining Marsfield and North Epping experience the greatest reptile activity, but snakes can turn up anywhere across the suburb.
Epping’s older homes provide plenty of shelter around roof cavities, subfloors, sheds, retaining walls and established gardens. Renovations and demolition work can also disturb snakes and lizards that have been living unnoticed beneath buildings or around stored materials.
Diamond pythons, like this one, are among the snakes encountered around Epping’s bushland corridors and older properties. What we see in Epping
Red-bellied black snakes are one of the most frequently encountered snakes around Epping’s creek lines and damp bushland corridors. Properties near Terrys Creek, drainage channels, ponds, pools and heavily watered gardens are the most likely places to see them. Activity generally increases through spring and summer, particularly following rain.
Diamond pythons occur through the bushland-connected parts of Epping and occasionally enter roof cavities, garages and sheds. Older homes with accessible eaves, established gardens and rodent activity provide suitable shelter. They are non-venomous but can be extremely difficult to remove once they disappear into a roof or wall cavity.
Green tree snakes are regularly encountered in Epping gardens. Slender, fast and harmless, they are often found climbing through shrubs, along fences or around garages and sheds. They sometimes enter homes or roof spaces while following frogs, skinks and other prey.
Golden-crowned snakes occur around Epping’s shaded gardens, sandstone landscaping and bushland edges. They are small, nocturnal snakes that often appear after summer rain. Golden-crowned snakes are venomous, although their bites are generally considered medically minor.
Eastern water dragons are particularly common along Terrys Creek and surrounding waterways.
Blue-tongued lizards are found throughout Epping’s gardens and residential streets. Many suspected snake sightings turn out to be one of these lizards — never an issue, and we are always happy to attend and confirm what you have.
Lace monitors are less commonly encountered in central Epping but occasionally move through properties connected to the Terrys Creek and Lane Cove bushland corridors. They may enter yards, climb trees or investigate roof spaces while searching for food.
Where snakes go on Epping properties
The hiding places in Epping reflect the suburb’s combination of older housing, established gardens and ongoing redevelopment. We regularly search beneath decks and verandas, inside garages and sheds, around pool pumps, behind hot water systems and air-conditioning units, beneath stored building materials, inside dense garden beds, along sandstone retaining walls, under garden edging and around stormwater drains.
Diamond pythons may enter roof cavities through gaps around eaves, tiles and service lines. Smaller snakes can disappear beneath concrete slabs, into subfloor spaces or behind stored items within seconds. We work through these areas methodically once we arrive.
After we leave
Every Urban Reptile Removal job ends with a brief walk-through of the property. We explain why the snake was likely there, what may be attracting it and what you can change to reduce future activity — short grass, no clutter along fence lines, stored items lifted off the ground, gaps sealed where rodents travel and no pet food left outside overnight.
For older Epping homes, we may also identify accessible eaves, subfloor openings or gaps around pipes that could allow snakes and rodents to enter. No snake-repellent sprays and no gimmicks. Just the things that actually work.
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About Chris Williams
Urban Reptile Removal is run by Chris Williams, a professional snake catcher and herpetologist with 35 years of experience across the Greater Sydney region. Chris has worked at Taronga Zoo and the Australian Reptile Park, founded Snake Ranch — Australia’s largest reptile breeding facility — and has published seven books on Australian reptiles.
Chris has been President of the Australian Herpetological Society since 2014. He licenses and trains the catchers who attend jobs across the Urban Reptile Removal network. If you’re calling Urban Reptile Removal, you’re calling people who know what they’re doing.
For a snake catcher in Epping, CALL NOW on 0418 633 474. Snake in the roof, snake in the garage, snake in the garden or snake beside the creek. Urban Reptile Removal — seven days a week, year-round.