[8doubles]

slow worms I can just about cope with but adders!! I am always worried when harvesting my strawberries as many years ago when I was but a child our neighbour had an adder trapped in his strawberry patch, it had got in through the netting but  couldn't get out again having eaten so many strawberries and it wasn't very happy!! 

It is unlikely that the snake had been eating strawberries as all snakes (as far as i know) are carnivorous.
The adder probably ate a mouse that was eating the strawberries.

Snakes are great vermin controllers.

[operabunny]

I grew up in an area that had a lot of adders. You hardly ever see them, though, as they are very shy and will move off when they feel the vibrations from your great clomping human feet!

[Benandbill]

I'm scared now!
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Me too YIKES!! 

[Vit]

Well,
[joke mode on]
just keep in mind about snakes
a)some of them could be poisones
b)you can make chinese medicine of snake and alcohol
c)you can cook them
[joke mode off]
Personally i don't care if wild life protected or not. I will take any wild life if it will destroy my property or make any potencial danger to me or my family. Proof me wrong.

[savbo]

I notice all the replies are from The Sarf (apart from canada and japan) - we don't have many reptiles up here int freezin North - I'd love to have some slow worms on my plot!

M

[richy]

I got bitten on my finger last year by a grass snake, it was my fault as i didnt see it and touched it, still scared the poop out off me got to say that ive never seen an adder in somerset, just grass snakes.
I remember when i was a child, i lived in cornwall, my aunt and uncle had an adder come through their ground floor bathroom window and curled up in their bath.