When I was a child, I often saw snakes. Why are there so few rural areas now?

For children who have lived in the countryside for a long time, most of them will not be surprised at the mention of snakes, especially some children who have to go through the grass to go to school, because if they are not careful, they may jump out of the grass and scare them. However, there is a particularly strange phenomenon now, that is, when we go to the countryside, we seldom see snakes. Why?

First of all, the rural environment is no longer suitable for snakes to survive. As we all know, snakes like to live in haunted houses, but now there are no haunted houses in rural areas, so the living environment in rural areas is no longer suitable for snakes. With the steady progress of economic reform, the quality of life in rural areas has also been greatly improved. People living in rural areas have generally renovated their houses, most of which have been converted into brick houses. However, when we went to the countryside before, what we saw most was adobe houses. Therefore, with the continuous reconstruction of rural houses, there are fewer and fewer snakes who like dark and damp.

Secondly, the reason why snakes are rarely seen in rural areas is because humans have killed snakes excessively? Activities? . In some areas in the south, some people have the habit of eating snakes, and some even sell snakes caught in the wild to farmers' markets. Over time, catching snakes? Activities? It is also emerging in rural areas. Some people will soak the wine with the caught snake, some people will take medicine, and some people just extract the snake venom unilaterally. So, people have been catching snakes for a long time? Activities? The number of snakes is decreasing sharply, so we seldom see snakes when we go to the countryside.

Moreover, there are almost no snakes in rural areas, because the use of pesticides makes snakes have almost no food, and then the number is decreasing. Because the main prey of snakes is voles in the field, and the existence of voles destroys the crops planted by farmers, farmers have to use a lot of pesticides to kill voles. As the number of voles decreases, so does the number of snakes that feed on them, which makes it impossible for us to see snakes.