Note to readers: The Naples Daily News and News-Press are asking experts questions about Burmese Pythons in 2024. The invasive python is wreaking havoc with the ecosystem in southern parts of Florida.

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 a python nest, what's the best method to destroy the eggs? FWC: We do ...

Q. Can a Burmese python swim? Burmese pythons, like most other snake species, can swim. Burmese pythons are considered semi-aquatic meaning they spend much of their time on land and in water. Q. How ...

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 ...

South Florida Water Management District's 2025 Python Elimination Program is helping to address the invasive snake population.

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 ...

Q. Why is the skin of a python a threat to the invasive snake? FWC: Burmese pythons are a cryptic species and, similar to other snake species, their first defense is to blend in with the environment.

Q. What does a python eat? FWC:Burmese pythons are generalist predators. A variety of species have been found in their gut contents during necropsies including a variety of mammals, birds, reptiles, ...

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a branch of machine learning that addresses problems where there is no explicit training data. Q-learning is an algorithm that can be used to solve some types of RL ...