This is the moment wildlife officials caught a female king cobra which had laid 40 eggs next to a family home in Thailand.

Somchai Chiangnang, 52, spotted two snakes slithering into the undergrowth near his home in Chachoengsao.

He found 13 eggs a few weeks later then called in reptile catchers after fearing his garden would be overrun with the venomous serpents.

Footage shows the rescuers pluck the 6ft-long dark black cobra from inside her nest where she had been incubating the eggs.

She comes out wriggling furiously before a further 27 eggs - a total of 40 - were gathered up last Friday afternoon.

Somchai said: ''I didn't want them in my garden. I covered the hole with a net to stop them getting out. It would be dangerous for my children.''

The cobra was released back into the wild several miles away with her eggs.

This was the moment a female King Cobra was caught after laying 40 eggs in a next next to someone's house.

Somchai Chiangnang, 52, spotted the two snakes slithering into the undergrowth near his home in Chachoengsao, Thailand.

He found 13 eggs a few weeks later then called in reptile catchers after fearing his garden would be overrun with the deadly serpents.

Footage shows the rescuers pluck the 6ft-long dark black cobra from inside her nest where she had been incubating the eggs.

She comes out wriggling furiously before a further 27 eggs - a total of 40 - were gathered up last Friday afternoon.

Somchai said: ''I didn't want them in my garden. I covered the hole with a net to stop them getting out. It would be dangerous for my children.''

The cobra was released back into the wild several miles away with her eggs.