{"id":546507,"date":"2026-07-27T17:00:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T17:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/546507\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T17:00:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T17:00:31","slug":"monsoon-alert-6-signs-there-might-be-a-snake-near-your-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/546507\/","title":{"rendered":"Monsoon Alert: 6 Signs there might be a snake near your home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Snakes don&#8217;t leave footprints, but their movement across loose dust, dry mud, or sand can leave a distinctive trace. Look for winding, S-shaped or wavy lines across dusty floors in garages, basements, storerooms, or terraces\u2014the kind of quiet, low-traffic spaces snakes tend to pass through unnoticed. These tracks are often easiest to spot near likely entry points, such as gaps under doors, drainage outlets, or cracks along a wall. A single faint trail may just mean a snake went through once, but a repeated pattern in the same spot is a stronger signal it\u2019s using that route regularly. Suddenly, all activity of rodents stopped. This is one of the more subtle signs but it\u2019s a really good one. Sometimes the signs are fewer rodent droppings, less gnawing on packaging, or the normal sounds of scratching and scurrying at night, indicating a predator may have taken up residence and is keeping the rodent population in check. It&#8217;s not proof on its own, since rodent activity naturally fluctuates with the season, but combined with any of the other signs on this list, a sudden quiet where there used to be rustling is worth noting rather than simply feeling relieved about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Snakes don&#8217;t leave footprints, but their movement across loose dust, dry mud, or sand can leave a distinctive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[268602,268603,268601,268599,111,139,69,147,78914,268598,268604,406,268600],"class_list":["post-546507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-human-snake-encounters","tag-india-monsoon-season","tag-monsoon-safety-tips","tag-monsoon-snake-encounters","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-snake-behavior","tag-snake-safety-tips","tag-snake-warning-signs","tag-wildlife","tag-wildlife-rescue-groups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}