A venomous snake is slithering someplace on this image… however you may battle to seek out it

A photograph of a venomous snake barely seen beneath useless leaves has reminded Aussies to be cautious of the creatures.

The footage was taken in bushland close to the aptly named Snake Valley, west of Ballarat, on Wednesday.

It was discovered by Hodgson’s Snakes, a snake-catching business based mostly out of Ballarat, who revealed the snake in query was a venomous lowland copperhead that may develop as much as 1.7m-long.

The snake’s brown scales can barely be seen because it’s almost completely camouflaged among the many layer of useless leaves on the bottom.

Hodgson’s Snakes’ proprietor, Gianni Hodgson, instructed Daily Mail Australia they relocated the snake to the bush after being known as by a close-by home-owner who discovered it beneath a pile of rubble on their property.

The picture was posted to the Hodgson’s Snakes Facebook account the place they challenged their followers to attempt to spot the snake. 

Despite quite a few makes an attempt, customers have been unable to seek out the copperhead.

‘These sort of pics make me assume I’ve (in all probability) walked previous snakes thousands and thousands of occasions with out figuring out,’ one of many customers commented.

Mr Hodgson stated that whereas copperheads are ‘in all probability the commonest’ snake discovered within the space, lethal brown, tiger and black snakes can be noticed.

The snake catcher instructed Aussies to not comply with frequent recommendation comparable to ‘stomping your ft’ in the event that they occur to come back throughout a snake.

‘We counsel saving your vitality and utilise your eyes, as there is no such thing as a guarantee stomping your ft will make them flee,’ he stated.

‘You could merely stomp on a snake, a snake you in any other case would have seen.’ 

He stated the important thing to avoiding probably lethal snakes was to ‘persist with pathways or brief grass areas and by no means climb over rocks and logs decide to walk round them’.

‘Once you do spot one, merely step backwards till you’re a protected distance away, and know it is not heading your path then take a large path round it.’ 

While copperheads can ship a harmful chew, they’re described as ‘sneaky and keep away from human confrontation’ except provoked, in response to the Australian Museum.

The venom of all three species of copperheads present in Australia are neurotoxic, haemolytic and cytotoxic, that means it assaults the nervous system, blood system and destroys cells.

‘A chew from an grownup of any of the species could also be probably deadly with out medical help,’ the Australian Museum’s web site reads.

The University of Melbourne famous one reported chew was ‘life-threatening’, however the sufferer later recovered.