A 13 foot and 9-inch female Burmese python and its nest of 111 eggs was removed from the Everglades and Francis S. Taylor Wildlife Management Area on July 7 by a contractor with Florida Fish and ...

Alongside the state’s annual Python Challenge, Florida pays about a hundred contractors to try and kill the snakes year round, a program that began in 2017. Spencer said just under 20,000 snakes have ...

The Florida Python Challenge is a 10-day competition created by FWC to encourage participants to remove pythons from seven commission-managed lands in South Florida.

Burmese pythons are thought to have come to Florida as pets in the mid-1990s. From 1996 to 2006, around 99,000 pythons were brought to the US to be sold as pets.

Snake hunters locate a nest of eight Burmese pythons — the largest to date in southwestern Florida CBC Radio · Posted: Apr 18, 2018 1:45 PM PDT | Last Updated: April 18, 2018 ...

And, in June 2021, a trail camera captured a bobcat raiding a python nest and eating the eggs. “There’s a bit of a pattern emerging that—and you’d expect as much—over time, the ecosystem ...