Q. If you come upon a python nest, what's the best method to destroy the eggs? FWC: We do not recommend anyone destroy a nest of eggs unless a female python is clearly circled around the nest of eggs.

The tick-covered female python was guarding a clutch of eggs. Photo via YouTube A word of warning: If you’re afraid of snakes or blood-sucking insects, then this video showing a giant python being ...

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has announced the dates for the 2025 Florida Python Challenge. What to ...

[Photo by Laura Chramer] While most people realize that any 18-foot, 200-pound snake living wild in Florida is a Burmese python, smaller pythons can resemble native snakes. They lay eggs by the ...

That’s a record by far—the average clutch size for pythons in southwest Florida is 45 eggs. So, that snake alone would have laid 122 baby python eggs, and those would have all hatched. They might not ...

More animals prey on python eggs than previously thought. Trackers researchers to flock of vultures raiding a python nest and devouring the eggs. Researchers are also compiling data on growth ...

The heaviest tend to be females, but their weight can vary greatly depending on how many eggs they carry, how recently they’ve eaten, and the size of their last meal. A python’s ability to ...

Photo of the python stretched out across the Main Park Road in the Everglades. Its lumpy body may be a sign that it was loaded with eggs. Photo of the python stretched out across the Main Park ...