Pythons are snacking on GPS-wearing opossums that give up their locations

Washington Post via MSN ^ | Feb 18, 2023 | Kyle Melnick

[FLNittany]

There’s plenty of money in bounties. They aren’t easy to catch or shoot. Also they reproduce at a rate that would take an army to catch up with. Even then they’d just bounce back eventually anyway.

[caww]

.....”Also they reproduce at a rate that would take an army to catch up with”.....

That is a huge problem.

[heavy metal]

why don’t you come down to florida and show them how to do it instead of preaching from a keyboard... 😁

[FLNittany]

"Folks claim that the swamps are eerily devoid of creatures now in some places, because of the snakes"

Rabbits and foxes are pretty much gone. Small deer are big targets as well.

[Bob434]

They have one. And it’s pretty good one too. But not nearly enouhg for what hunters have to go through to,get the snakes In such a hostile and difficult environment there

Troy Landry on the gator hunting show goes to Florida during the off season for gator trapping, and he works with a Floridan there and they get a bunch of snakes and make a pretty good wage. they capture the snakes a,I e thouhg for the show. But the bounty is dead or alive o. Snakes, and I think they pay just as much

[Bob434]

Not pr3aching, just pointing out some facts. Health reasons prevent my going there and hunting the snakes, Otherwise I would love to be there doing it as it pays pretty good.

[bert]

As a fairly easy exercise I would have you drive eastward on the Tamiami trail in Southern Florida. On the right most of the whole way is a canal and across it an impenetrable mass of vegetation. That is the visible python habitat. A man can’t walk through it much less see and kill the pythons.

There are bounty hunters that get paid for killing pythons. It’s easy money. They go out at night and find the snakes on paved roads, laying there soaking up the heat. Killing them is then simple.

They don’t waste time in the jungle vegetative jumble

[Bob434]

Yup- I’ve seen folks talking about how snakes have just decimated certain areas of native species. Exotic fish are also quite a problem now too inmthe everglades.

[caww]

A Florida cottonmouth that ate an invasive Burmese python that had been radiotagged for study - 2021

[caww]

Bobcat caught on camera trap eating python eggs in the Florida Everglades.

[caww]

5-foot alligator found inside Burmese python in Florida

[mad_as_he$$]

Dang! That’s a big stinking snake. Troy Landry and company catch some big ones but that is hugh!

[caww]

18 footer caught in Florida...

[heavy metal]

they’re trying all angles and options available to solve the problem without jeopardizing the safety of other hunters...

it’s a dangerous area to begin with...

[deport]

5-foot alligator found inside Burmese python in Florida

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Gator got more than it could chew.....

[caww]

Another 18 foot Burmese Phython caught in Florida

[caww]

Not many people would be willing to go into their holes

[caww]

When Florida floods....

[OKSooner]

Declare them a pest species, open up a year-’round season (Florida may have already done this; I wouldn’t know, myself) and place a bounty of oh... $200 per dead snake. Send that cajun dude from Louisiana to help out.