Not for nothing, but if you simply kill the snake the fire ants will clear the corpse assuming the turkey buzzards don’t find it first.
Dead stuff does not last long on the ground in Florida. Even a dead cow does not last long there - huge numbers of buzzards and the fire ants are ridiculous. At night you get the possums and wild hogs in many places and there is no shortage of those either!
I remember road-killed dogs swelling up like purple balloons in very little time in Florida.