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28 of the best Burmese python photos from our archives

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Mark H. Bickel, Naples Daily News
This record breaking Burmese python was captured by a biologists from the Conservancy of Southwest Florida. The female snake measured nearly 18 feet in length and weighed 215 pounds and is the largest snake python captured in Florida. It was captured through the Conservancy's research program, which uses radio transmitters implanted in male "scout" snakes. Scout snakes lead biologists to breeding aggregations and large, reproductive females, allowing researchers to remove them from the wild.

The following photos are some of the best Burmese python photos from the Naples Daily News and The News-Press visual archives:

Hunting the Burmese python in Florida

Donna Kalil captures a wild Burmese python in the Everglades west of Miami on Monday October, 28, 2019. She hunts several days a week and has notched hundreds of the invasive species. The pythons have invaded the Everglades and have caused havoc to the ecosystem.
Donna Kalil captures a wild Burmese python in the Everglades west of Miami on Monday October, 28, 2019. She hunts several days a week and has notched hundreds of the invasive species. The pythons have invaded the Everglades and have caused havoc to the ecosystem.
Donna Kalil captures a wild Burmese python in the Everglades west of Miami on Monday October, 28, 2019. She hunts several days a week and has notched hundreds of the invasive species. The pythons have invaded the Everglades and have caused havoc to the ecosystem.
Donna Kalil captures a wild Burmese python in the Everglades west of Miami on Monday October, 28, 2019. She hunts several days a week and has notched hundreds of the invasive species. The pythons have invaded the Everglades and have caused havoc to the ecosystem.
Donna Kalil captures a wild Burmese python in the Everglades west of Miami on Monday October, 28, 2019. She hunts several days a week and has notched hundreds of the invasive species. The pythons have invaded the Everglades and have caused havoc to the ecosystem.
Donna Kalil captures a wild Burmese python in the Everglades west of Miami on Monday October, 28, 2019. She hunts several days a week and has notched hundreds of the invasive species. The pythons have invaded the Everglades and have caused havoc to the ecosystem.

The largest Burmese python ever caught in Florida

Ian Bartoszek, wildlife biologist and environmental science project manager for the Conservancy of Southwest Florida in Naples speaks with the media Wednesday, June 22, 2022 about how he and his team captured the largest invasive Burmese python to date in Florida. The female snake measured nearly 18 feet in length and weighed 215 pounds. It was captured through the Conservancy's research program, which uses radio transmitters implanted in male "scout" snakes. Scout snakes lead biologists to breeding aggregations and large, reproductive females, allowing researchers to remove them from the wild. With him are biologist Ian Easterling and intern Kyle Findley.
Ian Bartoszek, wildlife biologist and environmental science project manager for the Conservancy of Southwest Florida in Naples speaks with the media Wednesday, June 22, 2022 about how he and his team captured the largest invasive Burmese python to date in Florida. The female snake measured nearly 18 feet in length and weighed 215 pounds. It was captured through the Conservancy's research program, which uses radio transmitters implanted in male "scout" snakes. Scout snakes lead biologists to breeding aggregations and large, reproductive females, allowing researchers to remove them from the wild. With him are biologist Ian Easterling and intern Kyle Findley.
Ian Bartoszek, wildlife biologist and environmental science project manager for the Conservancy of Southwest Florida speaks with the media about how he and his team captured the largest invasive Burmese python to date in Florida. The female snake measured nearly 18 feet in length and weighed 215 pounds. It was captured through the ConservancyÕs research program, which uses radio transmitters implanted in male ÒscoutÓ snakes. Scout snakes lead biologists to breeding aggregations and large, reproductive females, allowing researchers to remove them from the wild.
This record breaking Burmese python was captured by a biologists from the Conservancy of Southwest Florida. The female snake measured nearly 18 feet in length and weighed 215 pounds and is the largest snake python captured in Florida. It was captured through the Conservancy's research program, which uses radio transmitters implanted in male "scout" snakes. Scout snakes lead biologists to breeding aggregations and large, reproductive females, allowing researchers to remove them from the wild.
This record breaking Burmese python was captured by a biologists from the Conservancy of Southwest Florida. The female snake measured nearly 18 feet in length and weighed 215 pounds and is the largest snake python captured in Florida. It was captured through the ConservancyÕs research program, which uses radio transmitters implanted in male ÒscoutÓ snakes. Scout snakes lead biologists to breeding aggregations and large, reproductive females, allowing researchers to remove them from the wild.

How to capture a Burmese python

Deloris Hansen a resident of Citrus Park in Bonita Springs wrangles a burmese python during a training session on how to capture pythons in the wild on Thursday Jan 9, 2020. The session is held by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Several residents from the park are going on a hunt Friday to kick off the 2020 python bowl. The invasive species are taking over the everglades and efforts are underway to eradicate them.
Lee Estelle, right, a resident of Citrus Park in Bonita Springs wrangles a burmese python during a training session on how to capture pythons in the wild on Thursday Jan. 9, 2020. The session is held by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Helping with the invasive snake is Tyson Dallas, a non-native fish and game wildlife biologist for the FWC. Several residents from the park are going on a hunt Friday to kick off the 2020 python bowl.
Kelly Williams, a resident of Alabama wrangles a burmese python during a training session on how to capture pythons in the wild at Citrus Park in Bonita Springs on Thursday Jan 9, 2020. The session is held by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Several residents from the park are going on a hunt Friday to kick off the 2020 python bowl. The invasive species are taking over the everglades and efforts are underway to eradicate them.
These wild burmese pythons were used for a training session on how to capture pythons in the wild. The session is held by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission at Citrus Park in Bonita Springs. Several residents from the park are going on a hunt Friday to kick off the 2020 python bowl. The invasive species are taking over the everglades and efforts are underway to eradicate them.

Researchers tracking, studying Burmese pythons

Congressman goes on Burmese python hunt

More research efforts

Wildlife biologist Ian Bartoszek holding a captured female python with male scout snake “Elvis” in the foreground.
Wildlife biologist Ian Bartoszek holding a captured female python with male scout snake “Elvis” in the foreground.
Adult female pythons at Conservancy of Southwest Florida’s invasive species lab located by tracking a female scout snake.
Adult female pythons at Conservancy of Southwest Florida’s invasive species lab located by tracking a female scout snake.
During the past eight years, the Conservancy of Southwest Florida’s python-tracking team has removed over 20,000 pounds of Burmese pythons from a 75-square-mile area in Southwest Florida. Wildlife biologists Ian Bartoszek and Ian Easterling, both with the Conservancy of Southwest Florida, with a 125 pound captured female Burmese python located utilizing a radio-tagged male scout snake during the breeding season in the Picayune Strand State Forest.
Wildlife biologist Ian Easterling and conservation associate Mady Eori, both with the Conservancy of Southwest Florida, captured Burmese pythons located utilizing a radio-tagged male scout snake during the breeding season.
Wildlife biologist Ian Easterling and conservation associate Mady Eori, both with the Conservancy of Southwest Florida, captured Burmese pythons located utilizing a radio-tagged male scout snake during the breeding season.
Wildlife biologists Ian Bartoszek (right) and Ian Easterling, both with the Conservancy of Southwest Florida, with a 125 pound captured female Burmese python located utilizing a radio-tagged male scout snake during the breeding season.
Wildlife biologists Ian Bartoszek (right) and Ian Easterling, both with the Conservancy of Southwest Florida, with a 125 pound captured female Burmese python located utilizing a radio-tagged male scout snake during the breeding season.

This article originally appeared on Naples Daily News: Burmese pythons in Florida captured in photographs