{"id":353924,"date":"2026-07-27T18:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T18:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/353924\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T18:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T18:06:07","slug":"burmese-pythons-spreading-north-into-charlotte-county-state-hunt-wraps-with-no-winner-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/353924\/","title":{"rendered":"Burmese pythons spreading north into Charlotte County, state hunt wraps with no winner announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CHARLOTTE COUNTY, Fla. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\">WWSB<\/a>) &#8211; Burmese pythons, the invasive snakes that can grow up to 20 feet long, are expanding into new parts of Florida, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Established colonies have moved north into Charlotte County, beyond the swampy Everglades where the species has long been present.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2026\/07\/10\/registration-open-2026-florida-python-challenge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2026\/07\/10\/registration-open-2026-florida-python-challenge\/\">2026 Florida Python Challenge now open<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2026\/06\/11\/local-python-hunter-discusses-invasive-species\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2026\/06\/11\/local-python-hunter-discusses-invasive-species\/\">Local Python Hunter discusses the invasive species<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Florida holds yearly state challenges to manage the growing python population, with hunters eligible to win up to $10,000 for catching the snakes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This year\u2019s hunt ran July 10\u201319. As of this report, no winner has been announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Last year\u2019s winner captured 60 snakes to claim the top prize.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTE COUNTY, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; Burmese pythons, the invasive snakes that can grow up to 20 feet long,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[144607,144604,209,211,210,144606,144608,15748,144605],"class_list":["post-353924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-a-fish-and-wildlife-conservation-commission","tag-burmese-pythons-florida","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-charlotte-county-invasive-snakes","tag-everglades-python-population","tag-florida-fish-and-wildlife-conservation-commission","tag-florida-python-hunt-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}