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re: How does Florida get rid of a plague of pythons?
Posted on 6/18/23 at 9:52 pm to Auburn1968
Posted on 6/18/23 at 9:52 pm to Auburn1968
Dumbass Floridians bought a Python for a pet when it was cool and either let it go because it got too big or it escaped..
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Posted on 6/18/23 at 9:52 pm to Auburn1968
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.
Posted on 6/18/23 at 9:57 pm to Auburn1968
They can't put some type of bomb in select areas and try to wipe out a bunch of them at once? I mean I know it will kill some other shite, but you have to mass kill them if you want to get rid of them.
Posted on 6/19/23 at 12:35 am to Auburn1968
Diversity is our strength. Does that fly in this case?
Posted on 6/19/23 at 5:16 am to AlwysATgr
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There are already American crocs in the Everglades. Are you suggesting salties or Nile crocs?
Posted on 6/19/23 at 6:05 am to Auburn1968
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Missing grandmother eaten alive by 22-foot-long python in Indonesia.
Posted on 6/19/23 at 6:14 am to Auburn1968
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How does Florida get rid of a plague of pythons?
Larger, more aggressive snakes to kill the original snakes…
Posted on 6/19/23 at 6:47 am to Auburn1968
TIL that reticulated pythons can grow up to 28 feet, making them the largest snakes in the world, not the Amazonian Anaconda. The largest python found was 32 feet long
Posted on 6/19/23 at 6:48 am to Blutarsky
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Dumbass Floridians bought a Python for a pet when it was cool and either let it go because it got too big or it escaped..
Hurricane Andrew destroying that python facility was a big cause.
Simply put, they’re too far gone to ever turn back time and destroy the python population.
Posted on 6/19/23 at 7:31 am to The Boat
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Hurricane Andrew destroying that python facility was a big cause.
yep...located in homestead I believe
I am just glad there wasn't a bunch of black mambas in that facility
Posted on 6/19/23 at 8:51 am to Higgysmalls
quote:this is fascinating topic.
Who really cares
But hey we can get back to talking abiut boobs and murders
Posted on 6/19/23 at 9:24 am to DamnGood86
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Let them trap and ship wild hogs from Texas and release in Florida. The hogs will eat the smaller snakes. The bigger snakes will eat the hogs.
We have hogs too. Especially a bit north of the glades.
Posted on 6/19/23 at 9:30 am to Auburn1968
I think the hardest part about killing off the pythons is finding them. They aren't easy to spot (by evolutionary design) and they are in the densest parts of the Everglades, which is no bueno for humans.
They should offer $100 a head for them though if they don't already and maybe more. Just pay exorbitant money to prolific python killers.
They should offer $100 a head for them though if they don't already and maybe more. Just pay exorbitant money to prolific python killers.
Posted on 6/19/23 at 9:32 am to OweO
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They can't put some type of bomb in select areas and try to wipe out a bunch of them at once? I mean I know it will kill some other shite, but you have to mass kill them if you want to get rid of them.
Ladies and gentlemen, here you go. These are the people sharing the same oxygen as us
Posted on 6/19/23 at 9:36 am to Jones
What about introducing sterile pythons? Don't they do that with mosquitoes? Would that even do anything? Are snakes territorial and do they kill each other? IF so, maybe breed some monster pythons in captivity that are sterile then release them to hurt the population from within
I am bored this morning.
Posted on 6/19/23 at 9:37 am to Auburn1968
Call up Tecovas and create a new Python line of boots. I will take a pair in the "Dean" style.
Posted on 6/19/23 at 9:46 am to CatfishJohn
Some snakes eat others like king snakes but the pythons they have everywhere don't. Like another poster said, they're here to stay. The environment is perfect for them.
Not sterile but chipped pythons was a plan years ago. Chip a large male and they find the females. You go in and kill all of them minus the chipped guy. Don't know how successful it's been though
https://www.google.com/amp/s/phys.org/news/2019-04-invasive-pythons.amp
Not sterile but chipped pythons was a plan years ago. Chip a large male and they find the females. You go in and kill all of them minus the chipped guy. Don't know how successful it's been though
https://www.google.com/amp/s/phys.org/news/2019-04-invasive-pythons.amp
Posted on 6/19/23 at 10:02 am to Auburn1968
They pay per python, and people are hunting them year around.
Their infestation started because of one weirdo and his collection of pythons and a hurricane.
Hurricane took them and dropped them into everglades, heat and humidity was the perfect place for them to multiply and they did, in record numbers
Lionfish are also hunted. In Aruba they used to beg the divers to kill as many as they could and reward them with cash
Their infestation started because of one weirdo and his collection of pythons and a hurricane.
Hurricane took them and dropped them into everglades, heat and humidity was the perfect place for them to multiply and they did, in record numbers
Lionfish are also hunted. In Aruba they used to beg the divers to kill as many as they could and reward them with cash
Posted on 6/19/23 at 10:38 am to SwampGar
quote:i owned constructors when I was a child, and I saw them eat many a lizard alive.
Constrictors don’t eat you alive. They def strangle you first, to death that is. So, you are dead, not alive when eaten.
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