[bumpus7]

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Burmese Python Found With Record 87 Eggs



They need to open a season so people can kill off most of these snakes
which are taking over Florida, and are also moving north to other states ! ! !

Holy Herpetology! Burmese Python Found With Record 87 Eggs - Yahoo! News
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[Crane's Rooster]

I think it may be too late. The invasive species in Florida, particularly reptiles, have made themselves at home and proliferated at very fast rates in south Florida. Monitor lizards, iguanas, pythons....they have all set up shop and with few natural predators they are going to town on our eco system. They only thing that tends to stop them is long cold streaks.

[bumpus7]

Originally Posted by Crane's Rooster

I think it may be too late. The invasive species in Florida, particularly reptiles, have made themselves at home and proliferated at very fast rates in south Florida. Monitor lizards, iguanas, pythons....they have all set up shop and with few natural predators they are going to town on our eco system. They only thing that tends to stop them is long cold streaks.

If enough people become the predators and hunt them down
and shoot them they will decrease in #'s.
Just like when the killed of most of the Bison.

[vaughanwilliams]

Closing down the exotic pet business is a good place to start. As far as I know, our gutless legislature has done bumpkis to outlaw it. Free enterprise and all that I suppose.

[beachmouse]

Florida Fish & Wildlife is currently giving out free and unlimited permits to take non-native snakes. The barrier seems to be that they require a fair amount of paperwork on the 'specs' of each snake taken since they're relying on the hunters to help build their profile of snake movement.

[jghorton]

My understanding is that the problem is not a lack of permits, but, the fact that these highly elusive critters are thriving in the Everglades (eg; Burmese python with 87 eggs) ... beyond anyone's ability to either track or hunt them down. Plus, they are endangering the entire ecosystem by literally eating anything and everything in their path.

Perhaps if there was a bounty on them or if they had some secondary market value (snake skin boots?) ... but, thus far, it's pretty much a one-way train: Foreign capture -- U.S. Pet Store -- Resident who has no idea what they are getting into --- Everglades or other remote area.

[MARGARETHESS]

I moved out of Florida because of the snakes, coming into my home and eating my baby birds in the cage while I was sleeping... Do you know how creepy that is???? Who can feel comfortable with this kind of environment????? bugs, snakes, fire ants,,, palmetto bugs ,,, you name it, and Florida has it.. I moved to Mississippi and in the 3 and 1/2 years of living here, I have not come across any snakes,,, fire ants YES, but no snakes... UGH!!!!
THE BIG PROBLEM IS "GOVERNMENT" YES, THEY DONT CARE ONE BIT ABOUT TAKEING CONTROL OF PEOPLE BUYING SUCH HORRIBLE CREATURES AND BRINGING THEM INTO THEIR HOME AND SLEEPING WITH THEM AND WHEN THEY GET TOO BIG TO HANDLE THEY LET THEM GO INTO THE WILD........... NO ONE CARES ENOUGH...

[Crane's Rooster]

Originally Posted by jghorton

My understanding is that the problem is not a lack of permits, but, the fact that these highly elusive critters are thriving in the Everglades (eg; Burmese python with 87 eggs) ... beyond anyone's ability to either track or hunt them down. Plus, they are endangering the entire ecosystem by literally eating anything and everything in their path.

Perhaps if there was a bounty on them or if they had some secondary market value (snake skin boots?) ... but, thus far, it's pretty much a one-way train: Foreign capture -- U.S. Pet Store -- Resident who has no idea what they are getting into --- Everglades or other remote area.

Yes, although we only hear about these creatures when one wonders into civilization or is captured most of them probably live deep in the everglades in uninhabited areas and this is where they are thriving. Like with most pest, it's not the ones you can see that you need to worry about, it's the ones that you don't see.

[southernnaturelover]

I sure hope the cold keeps them out of the panhandle.

[bumpus7]

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I have heard that they have been found in the Carolinas and Georgia.


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