How does Florida get rid of a plague of pythons?

But why?!

I'm sure they would like to cuddle a child too even if they aren't groomers.

Missing grandmother eaten alive by 22-foot-long python in Indonesia, officials say

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2022/10/26/grandmother-eaten-alive-python-india/10604949002/

I bet if you brought in some crocodiles, they would eat them all.

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The idiots in Gov are messing around and just like the Nutria will get worse. Just like the “nutria tail” program, their restrictions make it almost worthless.

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Nutria are probably harder to get rid of since they eat swamp grasses. Then again, their pelts are worth a lot which is why they got here to start with.

Pythons have nearly cleaned out much of the Everglades mammal and bird population, but they can be baited. It would take a major effort with massive baiting, but I suspect they can be eliminated.

Of course, stopping the sale and import of pythons and other species that pose a similar risk would be necessary.

What Florida needs, but won't get, is about 2 weeks a year of well below freezing weather to stem the python population.


Realistically, they have to take off the kid gloves and allow folks to go out with guns and kill as many as they can find.

Current regulations say you have to catch the python live, by hand and dispatch it later. That alone will eliminate a lot of people from even trying to catch pythons.

I agree they should stop those sales. If they would untie people’s hands on private hunting of them both it would help greatly. They barely let hunters go after pythons and only in a small area. Nutria rules are so cumbersome it’s not worth the effort.

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Current regulations say you have to catch the python live, by hand and dispatch it later. That alone will eliminate a lot of people from even trying to catch pythons.

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That's a really stupid regulation. For a dangerous invasive species that is destroying the animals in our native ecosystem, anything that works should be okay!

Guam is dropping thousands of mice embryos with a Tylenol portion to attack brown tree snakes. Brown tree snakes are eating all of the birds and anything else they can catch dead or alive. The program drops thousands of mice embryos with Tylenol via small parachutes that are intended to get stuck in trees where brown tree snakes live.

Interior Announces $4.1 Million to Fight the Brown Tree Snake on Guam

https://www.doi.gov/oia/press/Interior-Announces-%244.1-Million-to-Fight-the-Brown-Tree-Snake-on-Guam

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bet if you brought in some crocodiles, they would eat them all.

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Florida already has an abundance of alligators. A big gator verses a python is one thing. A small gator verses a bigger python is another.

Python vs. alligator:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVRhRzE_AkQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfYAj1k9uZM