Cash for pythons: Program celebrates another productive month

South Florida Water Management District is in its second year of managing a Python Removal Program. Winners win cash prizes.
Yahoo

New Florida tourist thrill: Hunt, and maybe catch, a python. ‘No experience necessary’

On their Florida vacations, Rob Wessels and his family have pursued an array of typical outings — deep-sea fishing, a stroll at the farmers market, tanning at the pool and beach. On the most recent ...
Sun Sentinel

Python hunters get paid by the hour. Here’s what it takes to do it for a living.

So you want to become the next Florida python hunter. The feat is not as simple as slinging a few snakes while galivanting through the swampy Everglades before calling it a day. Take it from Amy Siewe ...
AOL

Meet the Women Who Catch Python Snakes in the Everglades Every Night

For Beth Koehler and Peggy Van Gorder, this is how it works: Three days a week they run Hair of the Dog, their dog grooming salon in St. Petersburg, Florida. Then they close up shop, pick up their ...
Naples Daily News

Python Q&A: What's it like to capture a python in the dark? Watch the drama unfold

The Python Huntress, Amy Siewe, was at it again recently, heading into the swampy edges of the Everglades one night and pulling out as many Burmese pythons as she could. On this particular occasion in ...
Staten Island Advance

Watch: ‘It’s narly!’ Everglades alligator swims with its catch — a humongous Burmese python

Tour guides from the Everglades National Park in Florida were stunned recently when they saw a 12-foot alligator dragging a humongous Burmese python from its mouth through the swampy waters. Kelly ...

What It’s Like to Get Dragged Through a Florida Swamp by a 200-Pound Python

With some help from his family, python contractor Carl Jackson caught the second-heaviest Burmese python ever captured in the ...