Burmese python news.

[Woodznutz]

They're going to study them to death. This is what happens when scientists get involved in simple problems.

Comprehensive Review of Burmese Python Science Released

A USGS-led publication offers a new look at the constrictor that has invaded southern Florida

www.usgs.gov

 

[MarathonMike]

Super. Keep studying while the Python population explodes and eats every animal and bird in sight.

 

[Woodznutz]

Super. Keep studying while the Python population explodes and eats every animal and bird in sight.

Scientists have been studying our lakes for decades and still can't figure out why they are so polluted.

 

[Woodznutz]

Super. Keep studying while the Python population explodes and eats every animal and bird in sight.

Florida has turned the problem into a sport and a tourist attraction.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Super. Keep studying while the Python population explodes and eats every animal and bird in sight.

Then you better hope they keep studying...

"Because the Burmese python has spread throughout southern Florida, eradication of the population across the landscape is not possible with existing tools, the publication states. However, researchers at USGS and partner institutions are exploring potential novel techniques such as genetic biocontrol, that may one day provide an avenue towards larger-scale population suppression"

 

[MarathonMike]

Florida has turned the problem into a sport and a tourist attraction.

They need to keep a standing reward for Pythons AND their eggs. To my knowledge they have never assigned a reward for python eggs.

 

[Foxfyre]

They're going to study them to death. This is what happens when scientists get involved in simple problems.

Comprehensive Review of Burmese Python Science Released

A USGS-led publication offers a new look at the constrictor that has invaded southern Florida

www.usgs.gov

So called 'studies' that accomplish little or nothing that is important or useful to the general population is one of the ways the government wastes huge chunks of taxpayer resources.

 

[Woodznutz]

Scientists have been studying our lakes for decades and still can't figure out why they are so polluted.

Just in.
Eight beaches are now closed due to dangerous blue-green algae blooms.

 

[Woodznutz]

Then you better hope they keep studying...

"Because the Burmese python has spread throughout southern Florida, eradication of the population across the landscape is not possible with existing tools, the publication states. However, researchers at USGS and partner institutions are exploring potential novel techniques such as genetic biocontrol, that may one day provide an avenue towards larger-scale population suppression"

Great. Another recipe for failure. They've made the Everglades into a giant petri dish for their goofy experiments.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Great. Another recipe for failure. They've made the Everglades into a giant petri dish for their goofy experiments.

Uh, what? Do you often make sweeping judgments about things you know less than nothing about? Weird.

 

[Woodznutz]

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Uh, what? Do you often make sweeping judgments about things you know less than nothing about? Weird.

Such judgments could be made by anyone, even you.

 

[justoffal]

They're going to study them to death. This is what happens when scientists get involved in simple problems.

Comprehensive Review of Burmese Python Science Released

A USGS-led publication offers a new look at the constrictor that has invaded southern Florida

www.usgs.gov

Somebody should open a python meat processing plant. Create an entire industry.... If you build it they will come. I have heard the properly cooked snake meat is actually delicious.

 

[Woodznutz]

So called 'studies' that accomplish little or nothing that is important or useful to the general population is one of the ways the government wastes huge chunks of taxpayer resources.

Allowing the snakes to get really big is good for the snake hunting sport and tourism.

 

[Woodznutz]

Somebody should open a python meat processing plant. Create an entire industry.... If you build it they will come. I have heard the properly cooked snake meat is actually delicious.

Too much mercury in the meat. Besides, we gotta eat up those Asian carp first.

 

[justoffal]

Allowing the snakes to get really big is good for the snake hunting sport and tourism.

Lots of Floridians eat both snake and alligator

 

[MarathonMike]

Then you better hope they keep studying...

"Because the Burmese python has spread throughout southern Florida, eradication of the population across the landscape is not possible with existing tools, the publication states. However, researchers at USGS and partner institutions are exploring potential novel techniques such as genetic biocontrol, that may one day provide an avenue towards larger-scale population suppression"

LOL by the time the "scientific community" can agree on a safe biocontrol technique, the pythons will have wiped out the Everglades wildlife and will be moving into suburban Florida.

 

[Woodznutz]

Lots of Floridians eat both snake and alligator

Those crazy Floridians.

 

[Woodznutz]

LOL by the time the "scientific community" can agree on a safe biocontrol technique, the pythons will have wiped out the Everglades wildlife and will be moving into suburban Florida.

Hell, that seems to be the plan.

"Biocontrol technique", my thought exactly. The problem (for them) is doing it "humanely". I would have no such problem.

 

[MarathonMike]

So called 'studies' that accomplish little or nothing that is important or useful to the general population is one of the ways the government wastes huge chunks of taxpayer resources.

The follow-up study will be how the Everglades lost all of their wildlife. Prolly a hundred million in taxpayer dollars to conclude it was the pythons.

 

[Mac-7]

Then you better hope they keep studying...

"Because the Burmese python has spread throughout southern Florida, eradication of the population across the landscape is not possible with existing tools, the publication states. However, researchers at USGS and partner institutions are exploring potential novel techniques such as genetic biocontrol, that may one day provide an avenue towards larger-scale population suppression"

How much is the state bounty on python skins?

For the right price shirtless good old boys in denim coveralls will find every python in the swamp