Snake Catcher Belrose

Service Locations

1 June

If there's a snake at your home, garage, shed, or property in Belrose, 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 Belrose

Belrose sits on the southern boundary of Garigal National Park, with the bushland of Bare Creek and Cascades Reserve forming the western edge and the Manly Creek catchment running through the southern part of the suburb. The character is large established blocks, mature canopy, sandstone outcrops, deep gullies, and the kind of suburban-bushland interface that defines the inner Northern Beaches. The Glenrose shopping centre and Forest Way bring the commercial pockets into the residential layout, but most of Belrose is residential streets running between bushland fingers. That setting produces a strong resident reptile population.

**Diamond Pythons, like this one are common throughout Belrose.**

What we see in Belrose

Diamond pythons are the species we see most often. The Garigal corridor and the older housing stock with mature roof spaces sustain a substantial resident python population. Roof cavity callouts are the standout job category through the warmer months.

Red-bellied black snakes work the damp gullies, the creek lines, and properties with pools, ponds or thick shaded garden beds. Consistent through summer.

Eastern brown snakes are uncommon in Belrose itself — the bushland character doesn't suit them as well as the open country further west. They appear occasionally on the drier ridge blocks.

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 appear from the Garigal bushland in summer. A regular callout — they wander through yards, sheds and occasionally into roof spaces.

Blue-tongued lizards and Eastern water dragons are part of Belrose's everyday backyard 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 Belrose properties

The hiding spots reflect the bushland-edge 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.