ENVR How far North will Pythons go?

[naegling62]

View: https://youtu.be/nHRTwbs95uA

RT 14:07

How far north will Pythons go?

This is very interesting and brought up information I haven't thought of.

 

[Kathy in FL]

So long as they have prey and a way to get out of the cold, they will go as far north, east, and west as they can get away with. And homeless people may be part of their prey list. The bigger the meal the more time between meals they need. Rats in abandoned buildings could be another food source.

 

[Macgyver]

I don't think they can live anywhere that has more than brief over night freeze that they can hide from in the water.

 

[Trouble]

They should've have been systematically hunted down and eradicated decades ago. That time has passed now.

 

[ktrapper]

Couldn’t they go as far as any other states that have a healthy snake population?

 

[Ogre]

They should've have been systematically hunted down and eradicated decades ago. That time has passed now.

This applies to a whole range of "snakes" I can think of.

 

[lostinaz]

Smaller snakes can hide in small rodent burrows. Pythons cannot.

 

[Redcat]

Well they won’t make it outside up here in the great frozen North. Just another reason I love where I live.

 

[raven]

They won't get to Washington DC.
Professional Courtesy.

 

[Old Greek]

They won't get to Washington DC.
Professional Courtesy.

I wish they would!

 

[raven]

I wish they would!

Snakes in Washington are bigger and have bigger appetities

 

[ShadowMan]

They won't make it past any Asian communities......they eat them there.

 

[Intestinal Fortitude]

they will go quite far as boots and belts

 

[Kathy in FL]

I don't think they can live anywhere that has more than brief over night freeze that they can hide from in the water.

People said the same thing about the iguanas in Miami. Yet every year there are "iguana warnings" that they all too easily fall out of the trees when it gets below a certain temp. They aren't dead, but are in stasis and could wake up and bite you. ROFL.

Iguana actually isn't bad cooked right. If you can get over that it often still looks like it was when it was alive.

 

[barbarossa58]

Snakes in Washington are bigger and have bigger appetities

Called greed...

 

[Seeker22]

I wish they would!

Shame on you, wishing that off on those poor snakes!

Snake guy says Tropical snakes are prone to Pneumonia. Pythons shut down and die at 56 degrees. Anything over 104-5 will kill them too. Humidity is a factor. Tropicals are more delicate than people think they are.

 

[Trouble]

This applies to a whole range of "snakes" I can think of.

Not at all, native snakes are fine. Zero issues with them. But these things aren't native and should be destroyed. Snake is decent eating, nothing wrong with that. Fried rattlesnake is very good.

 

[biere]

Waiting kfor them to be hiding in the kudzu.

 

[intothatgoodnight]

Waiting kfor them to be hiding in the kudzu.

That's why flame-throwers were invented. (aka "scorched earth")

A fresh, hot-cooked meal.

Enough to feed the whole neighborhood . . . get your "greens," too, at the same time . . .

<ahem>

Carry on.


intothegoodnight

 

[Wildwood]

They won't make it past any Asian communities......they eat them there.

If TS ever truly HTF, they may not be a problem. We may all be happy to eat them...same with the wild hogs we have here. Our coyote population is out of control too but nasty as those things are looking now that they are overpopulated and hungy, I'd have to literally be starving.

 

[WalknTrot]

Ain't watching the video, but it's pretty far north in the summer. When the freeze hits in the fall, the range shrinks considerably.

 

[CaryC]

As soon as Global Warming kicks into high gear, they will be in NYC sewers.

 

[Rabbit]

They won't get to Washington DC.
Professional Courtesy.

Although the rat population is tempting.

 

[West]

They could make it as far as southern Oklahoma. We have alligators in the south east part of the state.

 

[Meadowlark]

The correct answer is too far.

 

[Sherrynboo]

I don't think they will get any farther north than the iguanas but I could be wrong!

 

[Wildweasel]

Moving out to the northern Rockies is looking better and better every day.

 

[JF&P]

They won't get to Washington DC.
Professional Courtesy.

Now this made me laugh out loud...good job raven

 

[Old Greek]

Shame on you, wishing that off on those poor snakes!

Snake guy says Tropical snakes are prone to Pneumonia. Pythons shut down and die at 56 degrees. Anything over 104-5 will kill them too. Humidity is a factor. Tropicals are more delicate than people think they are.

Yea - I would trust a pet Python before any Dems (commies) and most of the Republicans (Rinos)!

 

[Uhhmmm...]

Yikes...

Areas of the continental United States with climate matching that of the pythons' native range in Asia. USGS image:

More Here -> LINK

 

[PrairieMoon]

Safe!

 

[workhorse]

In the maybe area of north Ga so hopefully no

 

[Kathy in WV]

Safe for now. Barely!

 

[bobfall2005]

Large boa constrictor surprises Shelburne 911 caller

Shelburne police said they believe someone dumped a large domestic snake at the Shelburne Pond Fishing Access Saturday.

www.mynbc5.com

 

[bobfall2005]

From a bit ago.

 

[yellowlabz]

Safe for now. Barely!

If they get to the borders of WV or Ohio, someone let me know and I will move further north!!

 

[marsofold]

The Great Dismal Swamp at the northeastern border of North Carolina is the northern limit for alligators due to the eggs being all one gender further north and preventing reproduction. Probably applies to pythons also.

 

[wobble]

When that huge python was found a few days ago my first thought was it would be so easy for them to survive and thrive in regions like where Atlanta is.
The winters are super short and sometimes it's like spring all winter long with barely a freeze, and with so many man made places for them to retreat into during freezing weather it would be easy peasy to survive in may cases.

 

[naegling62]

I wonder if they like Joro Spiders?