Florida trackers bushwhack through swarming bugs to reach 10-foot python guarding her eggs

Florida trackers bushwhack through swarming bugs to reach 10-foot python guarding her eggs

Near Everglades Holiday Park, a Florida python tracker reached a nesting Burmese python only after forcing his way through thick vegetation and clouds of mosquitoes on a small artificial island. The female snake, about 10 feet long, was coiled over her eggs. The scene was dramatic, but it also highlighted a distinctly human-made problem: invasive snakes are thriving in altered landscapes and putting more pressure on native wildlife. What happene…