Florida wants you to kill as many of the invasive Burmese pythons as you can during the 10-days contest in July. But you ...

Last year's Python Challenge had 1,050 participants from 35 states and Belgium and those hunters removed 209 Burmese pythons from South Florida. The " Ultimate Grande Prize " went to Tennessee ...

The Florida Python Challenge is back in July. This year, the annual competition will begin at 12:01 a.m. July 11 and end at 5 p.m. July 20. How to humanely kill a python ...

FWC said this time of year is ideal for holding the Python Challenge because hatchlings are emerging from eggs.

This year's Florida Python Challenge is scheduled to start July 11 at 12:01 a.m. It ends at 5 p.m. July 20. Participants can win more than $25,000 in prizes as they remove invasive Burmese pythons ...

Today is the first day of The Florida Python Challenge, where snake hunters will wade into the Everglades to track down invasive Burmese pythons.Up to $25,000 in prizes are up for grabs during ...

In 2013, 68 Burmese pythons were removed. In 2016, 106 pythons were caught. In 2020, 80. In 2021, 223. In 2022, 231. The pythons caught from the challenge do not account for the number of pythons ...

The 19 images in the photo gallery at the top of this story are hunters posing with the pythons they caught in 2016, 2020 and 2022 at the FWC's Python Challenge.

Burmese pythons are adapting, evolving and slithering around these parts of Florida 5 things to know about the Florida Python Challenge: Map for hunt, bounty, how to kill No guns: Legal ways to ...

For the animals and plants native to the Florida Everglades, the removal of invasive species like the Burmese python is a tough job that someone’s got to do. But for many military veterans who ...