So when I learned that there was a python problem here in Florida ... I went on a hunt, I caught a nine-foot (2.75-meter) python, and that was it. I was hooked!" she said.

So when I learned that there was a python problem here in Florida... I went on a hunt, I caught a 2.75m python, and that was it. I was hooked!” she said.

The team of wildlife biologists has been honing the art of python tracking for more than a decade. Last winter alone they removed more than 6,300 pounds of the invasive snakes from the Everglades ...

Item 1 of 5 Amy Siewe, a professional hunter of Florida's invasive Burmese python species, holds a python in Ochopee, Florida, U.S. June 6, 2025. REUTERS/Marco Bello ...