Unwanted visitor in the greenhouse

[John85]

Since a few days there is a viper in my greenhouse.It seems like it intend to stay(it is dry and warm in there)
There are a lot of spaces to hide between the pots under the benches.
Any idea to lure it out without emptying all the greenhouse?

[Anthony Darby]

My only suggestion would be to take a shoe box (cardboard), make a small entrance hole. Fill the box with shredded or crumpled news paper and put it near where the snake usually goes. It may take a day or two, but if you can tell if the snake is in it by feeling the weight of the box, you can quickly close the hole and take the box over the hills and far away to let it go?

[John85]

Thank you Anthony
Any idea for a bait to encourage it a bit.There are plenty of other comfortable place to hide already and to move them 'd take a lot of work.I don't have any dead mice for the moment.What would be a nice snack for it?

[Anthony Darby]

You could 'scent' the box by putting leaving it out and putting some seed so birds come in and feed, or perhaps leave some seed in if you have mice in the garden. The smell of these may encourage it to enter the box? They are rodent feeders, but prefer their food to be the warm running around type as they hunt by heat as well as scent. Unless you know someone with a freezer full of mice lollies, in which case put a defrosted mouse in the box?