Proper arms for clearing the pythons from the “glades”?

[lcdrdanr]

Keep engineers away, they caused the problem in the first place. If we just left the Glades alone, and moved people and farms out, they would fix themselves.

The same could be said for New York City and pretty much anywhere else, just move the people out. Probably aint gonna happen, though.

And, yeah, the hog trap solution is viable. Make it economically advantageous to trap and remove them, they're gonna get trapped and removed

Dan R

 

[GF]

Woo-Hoo!!!

A 9 page Big Friggin' Snake thread and I've finally found something to use this Mac-10 .45 acp on!!!

 

[Rule3]

Woo-Hoo!!!

A 9 page Big Friggin' Snake thread and I've finally found something to use this Mac-10 .45 acp on!!!

Nice gun but nope, no guns allowed.

 

[GF]

/\

Well crap.

 

[mclark202]

This is never going to end. Nobody is ever going to be able to kill enough of these snakes to keep up with their reproduction.

Think about it, a medium burmese, maybe 3-4 years old, can EASILY lay 30 eggs. If there really is thousands down there(I don't doubt it that there is tens of thousands though), even if only 25% are capable adult females, that could be anywhere from 2,500 adult females and up. If they only lay HALF of what they can easily lay, say 15 eggs a year, that is 37,500 eggs a year!! If only 10% survive(a realisticly LOW number since they have very few predators), that is an additional 3,750 introduced a YEAR into the glades. Within 3 years, ALL those are capable of breeding and reproducing.

And to think that they have been in the glades for about 20 years now, and we are just realizing they are a problem.

They are there to stay, and are now considered a species of Florida. They will NEVER be eradicated, it's just not possible!

 

[oldRoger]

It seems now that we are not to harm these critters. They are to be captured and euthanized. I expect soon to hear that the capture crews must read them their rights before putting them in the bag.

mclark202; of course no one knows how many there are, but most likely the breeding population started with adults which escaped during Hurricane Andrew (1992). Andrew is now thought to have been a Cat 5 storm and included many tornados, and the reptile importers were flattened. Given your numbers and the great habitat available there could be one hell of a lot of them.

The attitude of many was "not to worry the gators will get them", well; evidently the gators didn't get them.

 

[snakeman32]

I will go down and catch a few. I have alot of experience with big snakes. I used to breed them. I had burmese and reticulated pythons and green and yellow anacondas. They are dangerous snakes and only people that are used to dealing with them should. It doesn't take long for one of these big breed snakes to get a hold of someone and kill them. If there really is as many of these things in the glades as they say, they are there for good.


snakeman

 

[red14]

Snakeman,

ever been to the glades? Got some skeeters too. Maybe you can get a game of rabbit baseball.

 

[snakeman32]

Never been to the glades yet. I heard the fishing is good. What is rabbit baseball?


snakeman

 

[red14]

Go near the water, at nght with the lights on. Take a baseball bat, the rabbits eyes light up in the dark.........

It's a beautiful place, easy to get lost, in many ways. Take a camera. Show us pictures

 

[kcoruol]

We could hire illegals to go clear the swamp of snakes.

 

[Rule3]

Go near the water, at nght with the lights on. Take a baseball bat, the rabbits eyes light up in the dark.........

It's a beautiful place, easy to get lost, in many ways. Take a camera. Show us pictures

TOO Funny!

This reminds me of the Iguana problem on upper Captiva Island where all the quadrillion-aires live. The bitch and moan about the Iguanas (non native) killing the birds, turtle eggs etc etc which is true. BUT to control the problem they have to hire a licenced trapper to trap them live and then euthanize them by freezing them and pay $20 to 30 per Lizard?

Couldn't just have someone with a pellet gun kill them on sight????

I want to hunt the big ass Cuban Tree Frogs which have displaced our native frogs.

 

[red14]

""to control the problem they have to hire a licenced trapper to trap them live and then euthanize them by freezing them and pay $20 to 30 per Lizard?""

OK, so let me get this straight. They freeze them, Iguanas (cold blooded reptiles), to be humane?

That is insane, terribly cost-inefficient, somebody is making a killing there.

Very South Florida. I say, let some redneck locals take over. One shot to the brain would be more humane.

Maybe some Iguana baseball is in order?!?!

 

[Rule3]

We have him standing by, on call and ready to spring into action.

 

[PRC74]

Please see my tag line.

 

[animalmother]

Hope all these Pythons that are harvested are turned into nice boots, belts, and wallets.