More Neighborhood Invaders

It seems we have problem “HOUSTON”!! It is in South Florida! Yikes! If poison toads are not enough, now within a week two python’s incidents reported on the local news. That does not mean we only have two either. They are in people’s backyards and eating cats. I’m outraged or should I emphasis terrified once again?

10/05 MIAMI -- A python's eyes were apparently bigger than its stomach.
Scientists in Florida are puzzling over a Burmese python that scarfed down a six-foot alligator before its stomach ruptured.
They found the carcasses in an isolated part of Florida's Everglades National Park. Photos show the gator's hind legs and tail sticking out of the 13-foot snake's ruptured gut.
The Miami Herald reported that scientists can't figure out how the snake got the critter down. The snake's head is also missing.
Experts say the clash is interesting, but it also shows the exotic snakes are competing with gators to top the food chain in the Everglades.
The gators have had to share their territory with a python population that has swelled over the past 20 years after owners dropped off pythons they no longer wanted in the Everglades. The Asian snakes have thrived in the wet, hot climate.
"Encounters like that are almost never seen in the wild. ... And we here are, it's happened for the fourth time," Frank Mazzotti, a University of Florida wildlife professor, said. In the other cases, the alligator won or the battle was an apparent draw.
"They were probably evenly matched in size," Mazzotti said of the latest battle. "If the python got a good grip on the alligator before the alligator got a good grip on him, he could win."
"Clearly, if they can kill an alligator they can kill other species," Mazzotti said. "There had been some hope that alligators can control Burmese pythons. ... This indicates to me it's going to be an even draw. Sometimes alligators are going to win and sometimes the python will win."
"It means nothing in the Everglades is safe from pythons, a top down predator," Mazzotti said.
click here to Python’s stomach ruptures after it eats big Gator

According to last night’s news, now pythons are roaming around in our backyards.

10/09/05 “Experts say that large snakes are becoming a problem in South Florida, mostly due to people releasing pet snakes that become too large to keep.”
click here to Plump Python’s in back yard-Cat missing

Killer Bees

“A University of Florida researcher says "killer bees" are back in Florida and that could be bad news for the state's $16 million honeybee industry.”
click here to Killer Bees May Spread through FL

Lethal lizards invades Florida will follow!! Yikes again!! I know I need to relocate - LOL Effective Feb 2006 All comments have been saved and hidden due to transferring to Haloscan 5 Comments