Two-metre snake is caught lurking in scrub in an Australian back garden - but it's almost impossible to spot
- Two-metre carpet python was spotted in a dirt patch of an Australian garden
- A portion of the snake's blotchy yellow and black scales can be seen in the dirt
- The female carpet python was spotted coiled around her clutch of buried eggs
A two-metre carpet python was spotted lurking in the scrub of an Australian backyard garden.
The snake’s blotchy yellow and black scales can be seen seeping through a dirt patch with green foliage in Indooroopilly, in Brisbane’s west.
Snake Catchers Brisbane, Ipswich Logan & Gold Coast confirmed the female python was sitting on a nest of eggs to protect her young.
A two-metre carpet python was spotted lurking in the scrub of an Australian backyard garden
Female carpet pythons coil around their eggs to defend them from predators such as large birds and raccoons but also to incubate them by shivering to generate heat.
They usually lay a clutch of 10 to 45 eggs in the summer months, which they conceal in sheltered areas such as the underground of a dirt patch.
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The reptiles can also lay their eggs in hollow tree stumps, in between bales of hay and building materials in sheds.
Python sightings commonly increase in Brisbane during warmer months, which is the period where the reptiles enter mating season.
A carpet python’s bite can cause substantial lacerations and punctures but thankfully aren’t venomous.
The snake’s blotchy yellow and black scales can be seen seeping through a dirt patch with green foliage
Female carpet pythons coil around their eggs to defend them from predators such as large birds and raccoons but also to incubate them by shivering to generate heat
