Snake Catcher Arcadia

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Arcadia is genuine acreage and bushland country. If you need a snake catcher in Arcadia, CALL NOW on 0418 633 474. Urban Reptile Removal covers Arcadia year-round, seven days a week.

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 Arcadia

Arcadia sits in the rural-residential country at the western edge of Hornsby Shire, with Marramarra National Park forming the western boundary, the Hawkesbury River corridor to the north, and the bushland of Galston Gorge and the connecting reserves wrapping the eastern and southern boundaries. The character is genuine acreage — large blocks, horse properties, equestrian centres, market gardens, hobby farms, sheds, stables, dams, deep gully country, and a layout where every property sits on or near a bushland boundary. Most of Arcadia is more bushland than suburb.

The result is one of the most reptile-active locations in metropolitan Sydney. Properties have all the conditions that draw snakes — water, rodents, structure, vegetation cover, paddock margins, and bushland boundaries. The job pattern here looks more like rural acreage country than Sydney residential: snakes in stables, hay sheds, machinery, water troughs, chicken coops, and the eaves of older farmhouses.

Arcadia is one of the few Sydney suburbs where Eastern brown snakes are a primary species, alongside red-bellies and pythons. The cleared paddock margins, the rodent populations around stables and feed stores, and the dry ridge blocks all suit Eastern browns. Calls involving browns in Arcadia are common, and acreage owners are typically already aware of the risk.

**Diamond Pythons, like this one, are one of the most common species we find in Arcadia**

What we see in Arcadia

Eastern brown snakes are a defining feature of Arcadia snake catcher work. The cleared paddock margins, the rodent activity around stables and feed sheds, the dry ridge blocks and the drier acreage properties all support an Eastern brown population. Calls involving browns in stables, hay sheds, machinery sheds, around chicken coops and along property boundaries are a regular feature, particularly through the warmer months. Highly venomous and capable of causing fatal envenomation — never approach, never attempt to handle.

Red-bellied black snakes are equally common. The Hawkesbury River corridor, the network of dams on the acreage properties, the damp paddocks and the connecting gully systems support a strong resident population. Pool and pond properties, dam-side blocks, and properties with active frog populations see the highest activity.

Diamond pythons are a major species. The Marramarra National Park and connecting bushland sustain a strong resident python population. Acreage properties with sheds, stables, hay storage, tack rooms, machinery sheds and large roof spaces deliver consistent python callouts year-round. Pythons in stables and hay sheds are a particular Arcadia feature.

Golden-crowned snakes turn up in the sandstone country and shaded leaf-litter gardens after summer rain. Venomous but their bite is medically minor.

Lace monitors are a regular feature — the surrounding national park and reserve bushland delivers them through paddocks, sheds, chicken coops and occasionally into roof spaces. Monitors raiding chicken coops and aviaries are a common Arcadia job category.

Blue-tongued lizards and Eastern water dragons are part of Arcadia's everyday wildlife. 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 Arcadia properties

The hiding spots reflect the acreage character: roof cavities, eaves and rafters of older farmhouses for pythons, inside stables, feed sheds, hay barns and machinery sheds, behind hay bales, around water troughs and dam edges, in tack rooms, under decking, behind hot water systems, along sandstone walls, in shaded garden beds, behind machinery and farm equipment, in chicken coops and aviaries, around pool pumps, and through the gaps between the house and the 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, sealed feed bins, no pet food or feed bowls left outside overnight, and chicken coop and aviary mesh checks for monitor and python entry points. No snake repellent sprays, no gimmicks. Just the things that actually work.

Call Urban Reptile Removal — Snake Catcher Arcadia

For a snake catcher in Arcadia, CALL NOW on 0418 633 474. Snake in the stable, snake in the hay shed, snake by the dam, snake in the chook pen, snake in the roof, snake in the paddock. Urban Reptile Removal — seven days a week, year-round.

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.