Man vs the Pythons

We're hoping the Pythons will eat the other invasive species....

Do they taste like chicken? IF so, Kentucky Fried Python…. You want fries with that ? Lionfish? No extra charge...….easy

If this is implemented, I intend to start a captive python breeding program. I figure if I can raise 200 per month = nice little cash cow...

How are you going to get the cash cow out of the python?

That is done at milking time...

Don't you suppose the animal rights activists will object to hunting, killing, baiting, and trapping of these wonderful creatures?

I remember in Britain in 1946 they implemented a bounty of ten pounds per Colorado Potato beetle, which was getting into the UK from imported potatos - people went into the fields to find them.

After a few months, they found a number of beetle breeding greenhouses and cancelled the program, and went to DDT

Ahh! Some of the early entrepreneurs at work eh? We learned well from our mother country!

Spread over 2,500 miles, the Everglades Park is a natural habitat for these snakes.

From Wiki:

The 2013 Python Challenge, a month-long event with cash incentives for python captures sponsored by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, resulted in only 68 total python captures by 1,600 registered participants.^[27]

It will take more than money to solve this problem.

If there is any good news Pythons cannot survive night time temperatures below freezing without finding a burrow or other warm hide out.

Unfortunately, that still leaves most of the deep south vulnerable to invasion.

Armadillos and cactus have already invaded my property in central Arkansas.

"If there is any good news Pythons cannot survive night time temperatures below freezing without finding a burrow or other warm hide out."

You mean like in the swamp water?

Cold snap killed many pythons in Everglades - Collections

http://time.com/3752598/burmese-pythons-taking-over-everglades/

Cold may be a short term solution. How long before they will adapt to a colder climate? Not all perished, some survived (the fittest?), Mother Nature has her way of dealing with change and those that survived have the genes necessary to impart to their offspring so they will be more tolerant of the cold. Darwin comes to mind.

Exactly right. In order to spread north, they need a warm place to overwinter. They just have to figure out how to ring a doorbell.

I'm wondering if I should take umbrage with this proposal?

What about large sound systems that play the "All the girls in France" snake charming melody. The snakes could then be herded up and fed meat-on-a-rope, making it simple to round them up. Isn't this how it was done in Ireland?

From my studies Pythons only have two predictable actions. #1 is constriction and #2 is digestion. I sent to the Florida authorities a discussion plan but they never replied. Basically the plan was to eradicate the python during these two functions. Since they are destroying the population of natural swamp animals my plan was at least something to give thought on. It appears that they have no problem with lots of pythons which from last information I saw number about 300,000 and growing.

There are "professional" python hunters?

Note - thank God they aren't Anacondas.

A "professional" is a person that makes a living or gets paid for his endeavor.

There is not enough money to make a living hunting Pythons,but if there were,there

would be plenty of hunters that would gladly invest the time and effort to become

proficient at the task.

Yes,this is one case where you can throw money at the problem to solve it,and you

will get some of it back as income tax.

All of these animals rights people should adopt one of these as pets and put them in

their yard or house with their kids.

I do not believe in mistreating animals,but humane dispatch of dangerous animals is

not cruelty,IMHO.

The pythons have killed somewhere over 90% of all the animals in the everglades.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/01/120130-florida-burmese-pythons-mammals-everglades-science-nation/

What will they do when there is no longer anything to eat. Will they eat each other?

My idea was to catch a lot of rabbits and other animals from other areas, to replace the ones that were eaten. Put a radio transmitter under the skin of every rabbit, set to start transmitting when exposed to the digestive fluids of a python. Then when you detect a radio transmission you track it down to find the snake.

For larger snakes, use deer and alligators. For smaller ones, use mice.

My plan was to fit a light natural fiber harness to the prey animal with a small packet that contained an explosive or other device that would be triggered by compression or acid. This way the only two predicable events constriction and digestion coupled with eating could take care of a lot of them. If explosive device is deemed to radical then a poison that could be triggered by acid and work on digestion only. Apparently their stomach acid on digestion is in the 2 ph range.