0_Apprentice
It's summertime and I know snakes will be more active.
1_Wizard
Snakes terrify me! I don't like their elongated and legless bodies. They freak me out!
0_Apprentice
Me too! I can't stand them and I've started to put mothballs around my home's foundation. 
1_Wizard
I knew mothballs were pesticide but I wasn't aware they helped to prevent snakes from entering.
0_Apprentice
The National Pesticide Information Center website do state it has little effect on them: but the act makes me feel better.
1_Wizard
The National Pesticide Info Center helps us by providing objective information on pesticides. I wonder if there is an effective method of preventing snakes from entering.
0_Apprentice
I always try to make sure in the spring that there isn't a food source for rodents in the summer.  The website does have that recommendation. 
1_Wizard
I will definitely keep that in mind. I live in a hot and humid location and I'm sure we have tons of snakes around here!
0_Apprentice
The humidity here in SC has increased dramatically over the years and I'm seeing more Black King snakes
1_Wizard
I lived in Charleston, South Carolina for twenty years before moving here to Florida. I did see a lot of snakes there!