Florida plans to give hunters another shot at pythons in 2016 | Miami Herald Miami Herald

Wanted: savvy hunter, tolerant of bloodthirsty mosquitoes, immune to muggy heat, able to traipse through razor-sharp sawgrass and — most important — unafraid of snakes.

Florida wildlife officials announced Monday the return of the “Python Challenge,” a monthlong hunt that in 2013 that was wildly successful — at least in terms of drawing out-of-town reporters and TV crews who helped raised the profile of one of the state’s most destructive and wily invaders. The hunt itself did not put a major dent in the Burmese python population, with 1,600 hunters bagging 68 snakes.

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Florida plans to give hunters another shot at pythons in 2016 | Miami Herald Miami Herald