Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bryan Russ holds a baby python he captured in the Everglades. "It’s 23” long, right out of the egg," he said. Q. If you come upon ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Note to readers: The News-Press and Naples Daily News recently caught up with Amy Siewe, famously known as the Python Huntress.

Photographer and writer Bob Bramblet is the past president of the Florida Outdoors Writers Association, and he wrote a book ...

State contractors caught the heaviest Burmese python ever recorded for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission a few months ago. Naples-based FWC hunters caught the giant python in Big ...

Q. Why should python hunters (and others) think twice about eating python meat? FWC: Some Burmese pythons removed from the Everglades that have been tested for mercury levels had high amounts of ...

Hunters in search of the elusive and invasive Burmese python know exactly what to do when they find one and capture it. Take a photo! What could be a once-in-a-lifetime experience needs to be properly ...

The 2026 Florida Python Challenge is a 10-day competition to remove invasive Burmese pythons. A top prize of $10,000 is offered for the hunter who removes the most pythons. Burmese pythons have ...

Note to readers: The News-Press and Naples Daily News recently caught up with Amy Siewe, famously known as the Python Huntress. Siewe gave a lecture at J.N. Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge on ...