{"id":9615,"date":"2026-10-13T08:25:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T15:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/?p=9615"},"modified":"2026-10-13T08:25:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T15:25:24","slug":"a-western-diamondback-in-the-flowerbed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/snake-removal\/a-western-diamondback-in-the-flowerbed\/","title":{"rendered":"A Western Diamondback in the Flowerbed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A homeowner called after discovering this Western Diamondback Rattlesnake coiled up in a flowerbed in her backyard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Josh arrived, the snake was still there and was safely captured without much trouble. He then thoroughly checked the rest of the property to make sure there weren\u2019t any additional snakes hiding elsewhere in the yard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the release, Josh searched within the snake\u2019s estimated home range until he found a dense pocket of vegetation with plenty of shade, moisture, and signs of rodent activity. The Western Diamondback was released directly into the cover, giving it immediate protection from the heat along with the resources it would need to settle back into the desert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"819\" src=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_0449-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"Coiled rattlesnake camouflaged among soil and irrigation tubing at the edge of a planter, tucked beneath dried stems near green basil leaves.\" class=\"wp-image-9616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_0449-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_0449-666x533.jpg 666w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_0449-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_0449.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A homeowner called after discovering this Western Diamondback Rattlesnake coiled up in a flowerbed in her backyard. When Josh arrived, the snake was still there and was safely captured without much trouble. He then thoroughly checked the rest of the property to make sure there weren\u2019t any additional snakes hiding elsewhere in the yard. For [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9616,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[116,8,138],"class_list":["post-9615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arizona-snakes","category-snake-removal","tag-arizona-snake-removal","tag-snake-removal","tag-western-diamondback-rattlesnake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9617,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9615\/revisions\/9617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}