Snake Catcher Roseville

Service Locations

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If there's a snake at your home, garage, shed, or property in Roseville, CALL NOW on 0418 633 474.

Stay calm and keep your distance. 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's 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 Roseville

Roseville sits on the Pacific Highway in the southern Ku-ring-gai LGA, between Chatswood, Lindfield and Roseville Chase, with the Garigal National Park edge wrapping the eastern side of the suburb and the connecting bushland of Echo Point Park, Roseville Park and the Middle Harbour catchment threading through. The combination of large established blocks, mature gardens with significant tree canopy, sandstone retaining walls, deep gullies running down toward Middle Harbour, and the direct bushland connections to Garigal produces the kind of varied snake catching profile typical of the Upper North Shore.

What we see in Roseville

Diamond pythons are the species we see most often in Roseville. The mature gardens, large roof cavities and direct bushland connections to Garigal sustain a healthy resident python population — most of which homeowners never realise are there until one turns up in the roof, on a pergola, or coiled in a sunny corner of the garden. Non-venomous, no threat to people, but worth removing properly when they appear in roof spaces or living areas.

**A Diamond python, typical of the ones we find in Roseville**

Red-bellied black snakes work the damp gullies, drainage lines and properties with pools, ponds or thick shaded garden beds. Consistent through summer, particularly following rain when frogs come up out of the moisture-rich bushland gullies.

Golden-crowned snakes turn up in the sandstone country and shaded leaf-litter gardens, particularly after summer rain. Often mistaken for something more dangerous because of their colouring. Venomous but their bite is medically minor.

Eastern brown snakes are uncommon in Roseville but appear occasionally on the drier ridge blocks and around older sheds with rodent activity.

Blue-tongued lizards and Eastern water dragonsare part of Roseville's everyday backyard wildlife, particularly along the creek and gully lines. Many of the snake calls we attend turn out to be one of these — never an issue, always happy to attend and confirm.

Where snakes go on Roseville properties

The hiding spots reflect the suburb's character: roof cavities and eaves for pythons, under decking and pergolas, behind hot water systems, around pool pumps and filtration boxes, in thick damp garden beds, along sandstone retaining walls, under garden edging, behind air-conditioning units, beneath outdoor furniture, and through the gaps between the house and the back bushland boundary. We work through them methodically once we arrive.

After we leave

Every Urban Reptile Removal job ends with a brief walk-through of the property. We tell you why the snake was likely there, what's drawing it in, and what you can change to reduce future activity — short grass, no clutter along the fence line, stored items lifted off the ground, gaps sealed where rodents travel, and no pet food bowls left outside overnight. No snake repellent sprays, no gimmicks. Just the things that actually work.

Call Urban Reptile Removal

For snake catcher services in Roseville, CALL NOW on 0418 633 474. Every day of the year.

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. He has been President of the Australian Herpetological Society since 2014. He licences 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.