re: How does Florida get rid of a plague of pythons?

In 2011 there was a big, big freeze in South Florida and the temperatures in the Glades went down into the low 30s and stayed there. It got cold enough for long enough that the shallow water fish (bream, bluegill, catfish) died. Millions of dead fish and it was dinner time for gators and buzzards. The gators were so fat from eating all the fish they wanted they looked weird. Buzzards could barely lift off the ground to fly. You could walk right up to them (the ugly bastards). It’s going to take something like that again (and colder for longer) to kill the pythons. Three or four days of constant 30s would do it easy, but that almost never ever happens in SE Fla.