Florida Python Leather

Playing this week at Sarasota Burns Court. Got a chance to go see it last night. Had us laughing 😆 great camera angles an wildlife footage .
Enjoy the Show

Go check this out Sarasota Burns Court

We will be open this Saturday 9-4 & Sunday .. 10-4
Come in check out the pythons. Bring Dad.
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Go check this out Sarasota Burns Court

(Python) Class is in Session

Want to learn more about invasive Burmese pythons in Florida and how you can help? Join us this Thursday, June 18, from 7-8 p.m. for our monthly online Python Patrol training! Our biologists offer this free virtual training for the public every third Thursday of the month.

Join us, and you’ll learn how to search for, properly identify and report Burmese pythons, get instruction on safe capture techniques, and more. Thinking of registering for the 2026 Florida Python Challenge™ this July 10-19? A Python Patrol training might just be the inspiration you need!

Python Patrol info: bit.ly/PythonPatrolTraining
Python Challenge info: FLPythonChallenge.org

Babies … my favorite
This is 100 Florida Burmese Python hatchlings turned into leather. These little ones didn’t get a chance to eat native wildlife.

Fresh Leather love that smell

This bag is amazing… got a great home and comes for a visit every now and then. She picked up a few new items to go with it. Always fun !!

The most successful predator in South Florida isn't from South Florida.

The Burmese python (Python bivittatus) is native to the jungles of Southeast Asia, not the cypress sloughs of Collier County. It arrived through the exotic pet trade across the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s via a mix of escaped animals, intentional releases, and, in the prevailing origin story, the rupture of a breeding facility during Hurricane Andrew in 1992. Four decades later, it is the most consequential invasive vertebrate in the Florida Everglades, and its established breeding range now brushes the eastern edge of Naples.

Adults regularly exceed 15 feet. The Florida record approaches 20. They are ambush constrictors with no natural predators in this hemisphere, no seasonal dieback to check their numbers, and a reproductive output native wildlife cannot match: a single female can produce 50 to 100 eggs per clutch. In the Everglades interior, long-term surveys have documented catastrophic declines in marsh rabbits, raccoons, opossums, bobcats, and white-tailed deer directly correlated with python expansion. In some survey zones, small mammals are now functionally absent.

That absence is the point.

The same wetlands that make Southwest Florida ecologically rich, Big Cypress National Preserve, Fakahatchee Strand, Picayune Strand, and the agricultural interior of eastern Collier County, are the exact habitat a Burmese python selects. Pythons do not need Naples to love them back. They need freshwater, cover, and prey density, and the western Everglades delivers all three.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) treats them accordingly. Pythons can be humanely killed year-round on private land with landowner permission and on 32 Commission-managed lands without a permit or hunting license. The annual Florida Python Challenge and the state's contracted removal programs have pulled tens of thousands of pythons from the landscape, and biologists are unanimous that the visible take is a small fraction of the actual population.
Naples sits at the western edge of that population. Confirmed sightings remain rare on the coast but are not impossible in canals, golf-course lakes, retention ponds, and the wooded interior east of I-75. Any suspected sighting should be reported immediately.

FWC Exotic Species Hotline: 1-888-IVE-GOT1 (1-888-483-4681)

Report online: MyFWC.com/Python

There is a lesson in a species like this, and it is not a comfortable one. A coastline can be engineered. Its landscaping can be perfected and its waterways manicured into a calendar image. The wilderness behind it still has the final say about what lives in it. The Burmese python is not a Naples animal. It is a reminder that Naples has never actually been separate from the Everglades.