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re: the Florida python problem
Posted on 9/21/23 at 3:35 pm to NOLAGT
Posted on 9/21/23 at 3:35 pm to NOLAGT
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I think they have some rock pythons around but could be remembering wrong. The Burmese probably have just the right tolerances to make it through the cooler times down there.
There was a big die off when Florida dropped below freezing, but some survived and they are still moving north.
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Posted on 9/21/23 at 3:37 pm to Jim Rockford
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Those bastards will be all over S. Louisiana before long.
First you make a roux!
Posted on 9/21/23 at 3:38 pm to Auburn1968
We’ve know the solution since season 4.
Posted on 9/21/23 at 3:41 pm to Potchafa
I’ve eaten them too, and to say they’re delicious is a stretch.
Posted on 9/21/23 at 3:43 pm to AlextheBodacious
Posted on 9/21/23 at 3:45 pm to TheChicotKid
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I’ve eaten them too, and to say they’re delicious is a stretch.
i see what you did there.
Posted on 9/21/23 at 3:48 pm to Sam Quint
i've posted about this before i think. a pretty sound theory about the explosion of the python population in south florida is that a fairly large python breeding facility was wiped out during hurricane andrew in 1992, resulting in a large, concentrated population of breeding pythons that expanded out from there. i think this makes a lot more sense than onesies and twosies getting released here and there by owners and somehow finding eachother to breed.
This post was edited on 9/21/23 at 3:51 pm
Posted on 9/21/23 at 3:49 pm to Auburn1968
There doesn’t seem to be a solution. The area is so dense, remote, marsh and swampland. You can bait and trap and poison but they breed like rabbits and you can’t get them all.
Maybe create a species-targeted virus but what could possibly go wrong there?
Maybe create a species-targeted virus but what could possibly go wrong there?
Posted on 9/21/23 at 3:52 pm to Auburn1968
Posted on 9/21/23 at 3:58 pm to Auburn1968
That is my nightmare.
If I lived in Florida I would be seriously considering moving.
Leave Florida to the snakes. It belongs to them now.
If I lived in Florida I would be seriously considering moving.
Leave Florida to the snakes. It belongs to them now.
Posted on 9/21/23 at 4:09 pm to Clyde Tipton
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Conversely, I'm surprised only the Burmese Pythons are thriving in FL. Why not Ball Pythons, Boas, etc.?
The problem started when pet owners who bit off more than they could chew released the burmese pythons into the wild because they got so big. A 6-foot, 20 lb. ball python in your house isn't a problem. A 20-foot, 400 lb. is a different matter.
Posted on 9/21/23 at 4:10 pm to TejasHorn
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There doesn’t seem to be a solution. The area is so dense, remote, marsh and swampland. You can bait and trap and poison but they breed like rabbits and you can’t get them all.
Maybe create a species-targeted virus but what could possibly go wrong there?
It would require tens of thousands of Tylenol carrying mice, rats and rabbits to make a big impact. Unfortunately, Tylenol is toxic to other predators also.
This post was edited on 9/21/23 at 4:34 pm
Posted on 9/21/23 at 4:15 pm to Adam Banks
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That is my nightmare.
If I lived in Florida I would be seriously considering moving.
Leave Florida to the snakes. It belongs to them now.
The Everglades aren't far away and I have only encountered a few black racers and a coral snake. We Floridians don't generally go tromping out in to the Everglades. Hell, I have a new gator in the pond and discovered we have large bass, iguanas, bobcats, etc. If the snakes aren't on our property, let the men who hunt them take them out.
Posted on 9/21/23 at 4:18 pm to Auburn1968
Seems cruel to the other animals. Let's just get some baws, pay them well, and tell them it's a free for all.
Posted on 9/21/23 at 4:29 pm to Auburn1968
quote:he needs at least a PC300 Komatsu to handle that monster. A sub 1 yard bucket machine ain't gonna get it done plus the boom to ground clearance is woefully lacking. Looks like a pc120 max
Whoa! That's a massive snake.
Posted on 9/21/23 at 4:32 pm to LSU82BILL
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The problem started when pet owners who bit off more than they could chew released the burmese pythons into the wild
Anyone releasing any snake into the wild needs to be shot. Besides, they may think they are doing the humane thing by releasing said snake, but I will walk backwards the length of a par 5 with a seven iron in hand just to get a few blows in on the lifeless corpse of their dead pet snake I inhumanely killed the week before.
Posted on 9/21/23 at 4:33 pm to liz18lsu
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Hell, I have a new gator in the pond and discovered we have large bass, iguanas, bobcats, etc.
Gators don’t bother me at all.
Having a non zero chance of walking in a field and coming upon this
This would be me later that day
Posted on 9/21/23 at 4:33 pm to Tiger Ike
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Not sure they survive the Acadians.
FIFY
Posted on 9/21/23 at 4:35 pm to Basura Blanco
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Anyone releasing any snake into the wild needs to be shot.
Or locked in small closet with a 15 foot python.
Posted on 9/21/23 at 4:38 pm to Basura Blanco
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Anyone releasing any snake into the wild needs to be shot.
Some snakes like rat snakes eat other snakes including venomous ones so they might be good to have eating baby pythons before they get too big.
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