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Pythons in Louisiana?
Posted on 7/12/23 at 9:38 am
Posted on 7/12/23 at 9:38 am
Everyone sees the invasion in Florida, but no one ever mentions python sightings in Louisiana. Are there any record of finding any pythons in La.? Conditions in LA. swamps are perfect for this invasive species to take off and really be a problem. Are they here? And no, I don't want to hear about any gumbo or sauce piquant recipies.
This post was edited on 7/12/23 at 9:41 am
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Posted on 7/12/23 at 9:43 am to ewilliams000
I'm no python expert, but I don't think they could survive long term here. Our winters get too cold.
Posted on 7/12/23 at 9:44 am to ewilliams000
I think South LA is too far north for them. I don't think they can survive a winter north of the frost line. A quick google search shows in Florida they are found as far north as Lake Okeechobee ( recent article from Naples News) which is pretty far south of south LA. The same article said that one was removed from the northern part of the state in 2012. I'd make an idiot's guess that there isn't a significant population of them that far since that's the only report I saw of one.
This post was edited on 7/12/23 at 1:32 pm
Posted on 7/12/23 at 9:45 am to ewilliams000
A couple of years ago one was spotted in Raceland on the service road. There was a video of it. I was told that someone captured it. Not sure what they did with it.
Posted on 7/12/23 at 9:46 am to ewilliams000
I've never seen one but i have seen a snake that was similar to the same size as one next to the Bayou behind my dad's over 20 years ago. Big arse water snake that was fat and well over 6ft long.
I still don't know what kind it was because it jumped in the Bayou as soon as I started heading it's way. Had to be a huge water snake.
I still don't know what kind it was because it jumped in the Bayou as soon as I started heading it's way. Had to be a huge water snake.
Posted on 7/12/23 at 9:59 am to ewilliams000
In the 1970’s one was killed near Krumbhaar Subdivision in Houma.
Two rabbit hunters killed it,Bruce Pellegrin was one of the hunters.
The Ward 7 Hunting Rodeo was going on down Little Caillou. The brought the snake into the club where the old guys were drinking beer and playing bourre and dropped it at their feet. Asked them if they had a snake category because they had the winner.
I think it was an escapee and was maybe 10 or 12 feet long.
I posted this in this thread from 2021. Thread from 2021 on pythons in Louisiana.
Two rabbit hunters killed it,Bruce Pellegrin was one of the hunters.
The Ward 7 Hunting Rodeo was going on down Little Caillou. The brought the snake into the club where the old guys were drinking beer and playing bourre and dropped it at their feet. Asked them if they had a snake category because they had the winner.
I think it was an escapee and was maybe 10 or 12 feet long.
I posted this in this thread from 2021. Thread from 2021 on pythons in Louisiana.
This post was edited on 7/12/23 at 10:14 am
Posted on 7/12/23 at 10:01 am to bluemoons
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Our winters get too cold.
The events we had the last two years would have been 100% death rate.
Posted on 7/12/23 at 10:30 am to Bigfishchoupique
My dad always told me that he heard the snake wrapped around one of the rabbit hunter's leg. He shot it and got arrested for it since it escaped from a zoo. Doubtful any of that is true.
Posted on 7/12/23 at 10:32 am to CootKilla
First u make a roux.... cant believe I'm the first w that :)
Posted on 7/12/23 at 10:37 am to ewilliams000
About 30 years ago i was in the Navy and stationed in New Orleans for two years. The Navy was demolishing some of the old barracks at the Naval Support Activity on the West Bank. The buildings had been empty for years.
The Seabees found a python or Boa in the walls that was over 15 feet long. The guess at the time was that it was an escapee that found refuge in the old abandoned structure and survived on rats. Nobody knew where it came from. My understanding is that a Seabee kept it.
The Seabees found a python or Boa in the walls that was over 15 feet long. The guess at the time was that it was an escapee that found refuge in the old abandoned structure and survived on rats. Nobody knew where it came from. My understanding is that a Seabee kept it.
Posted on 7/12/23 at 10:57 am to CootKilla
I heard that either Bruce or his buddy saw the snake , shot it and yelled , “ I killed a magnum rattlesnake “. They were in the briars I don’t remember whether they had dogs or not. Time flies.
I heard that it had escaped from a home in Krumbhaar. No one was arrested.
I heard that it had escaped from a home in Krumbhaar. No one was arrested.
This post was edited on 7/12/23 at 11:02 am
Posted on 7/12/23 at 11:02 am to Bigfishchoupique
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bourre
Boo Ray ?
Posted on 7/12/23 at 11:14 am to EF Hutton
bourre’. I left out the hyphen. The coonasses in Chauvin play “ bourre’ “. . The Yankees play “BooRay”. I always used the French spelling.
Posted on 7/12/23 at 1:21 pm to ewilliams000
I don't think they can sustain a wild population here but there are occasional finds of escapees or releases.
One of my first cousins who lived in the Welsh/Roanoke area found one on a dirt road. The story he told me was that he took it to a store and they kept it for awhile but it never ate. They thought it had probably been run over and injured. When it died he kept the skin and had it stretched out on a long board in his house.
One of my first cousins who lived in the Welsh/Roanoke area found one on a dirt road. The story he told me was that he took it to a store and they kept it for awhile but it never ate. They thought it had probably been run over and injured. When it died he kept the skin and had it stretched out on a long board in his house.
Posted on 7/12/23 at 1:25 pm to CootKilla
quote:In Louisiana? They ate it, I bet.
Not sure what they did with it.
Posted on 7/12/23 at 1:33 pm to ewilliams000
Got a friend who lived in Metairie years ago that had a 10 ft. Burmese python as a pet that I built a large outdoor cage for that was around 8 x 8 x 5 ft high and had 2 heating lamps that came on automatically when it got cold.
He and the family go out of town for a week and while gone it got below freezing 2 nights in a row for several hours at a time.
He had lost power for some reason and the heat lamps didn't come on and when they got back home, the snake was dead.
It don't take much cold weather to kill those snakes.
He and the family go out of town for a week and while gone it got below freezing 2 nights in a row for several hours at a time.
He had lost power for some reason and the heat lamps didn't come on and when they got back home, the snake was dead.
It don't take much cold weather to kill those snakes.
Posted on 7/12/23 at 2:03 pm to OntarioTiger
I came here thinking I was about to find someone that posted how to cook up some python. I’ve always wondered if it would be good or not??
Going on python and iguana hunt in the Florida Everglades is high up on my bucket list. Ik you can eat iguana, but I’ve never heard of any Floridians eating python. Either way, I def want some python boots out of the deal.
Going on python and iguana hunt in the Florida Everglades is high up on my bucket list. Ik you can eat iguana, but I’ve never heard of any Floridians eating python. Either way, I def want some python boots out of the deal.
Posted on 7/12/23 at 2:26 pm to CootKilla
quote:
someone captured it. Not sure what they did with it
gumbo or sauce piquant
Posted on 7/12/23 at 2:30 pm to ewilliams000
My drunk uncle told me he once saw a black panther eating a python that was eating an ivory billed woodpecker.
He seldom lies. This was just south of Teppy's bridge on Coteau platt.
He seldom lies. This was just south of Teppy's bridge on Coteau platt.
Posted on 7/12/23 at 2:42 pm to JTM72
quote:
Ik you can eat iguana
I ate it in indonesia.
As a dude who eats anything, from a culture that cooks everything in peppers, garlic, and onions, it still wasn't for me.
There was a wierd nutty gamey taste that was ..... Awful.
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