An Adelaide mother found a lethal baby brown snake hiding in her child's lunchbox on Monday.
She was packing her child’s lunch box when she saw the snake was hiding in a small lip around the top of the lid.
She immediately rang Snake Catchers Adelaide.
Snake catcher Rolly Burrell who answered the mum’s call and rescued the baby brown snake told ABC Radio Adelaide they had received unusually high number of calls this year.
Mr Burrell said, "We're doing about 50, 60 calls a day and they're all baby brown snakes."
Mr Burrell said said baby brown snakes were just as lethal as a full grown one.
However, the likelihood of the baby snake’s mother being somewhere around is not likely as the mother goes away after laying the eggs.
"The mother doesn't hang around, she lays her eggs and she goes," he said.
"She's quite cannibalistic, even if she comes across them in the garden, she'll eat them. So there's no love there."
Mr Burrell said it was normal for baby brown snakes to hatch at this time of year.
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