The Burmese python — an apex predator that can grow over 18 feet long and eat animals larger than itself — has decimated ...

Biologists release proven male breeders in an attempt to remove the biggest of breeding female Burmese pythons from the Collier County landscape.

The South Florida Water Management District's new python incentive program has led to the elimination of more than 100 of the invasive snakes.

The state is offering a free “Python Patrol” course to learn how to identify, catch and humanely kill pythons.

This includes a scout snake program that fits radio telemetry trackers on 40 male pythons, so they can be tracked to reproductive females during mating season (November through April).

Bartoszek and other scientists at the Conservancy employ a scout snake removal program where radio-tagged male snakes guide the scientists to the homes of breeding female snakes.

The program created by researchers working to eradicate Burmese pythons from Florida's wild lands was known as the "Judas" snake program. Now researchers call it a "scout" snake program.