This Feb. 16, 2013, photo shows a Burmese python being displayed at the python hunt awards ceremony presented by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, at Zoo Miami. A Florida senator who once hunted down a 9-foot Burmese python wants the state to pay private contractors to eradicate pythons and other invasive species from the Everglades.Republican Sen. Frank Artiles, who doubles as a python hunter, said during a committee meeting Tuesday that the effort is needed because “furry creatures” and American alligator nests are being destroyed by the voracious snakes. (Peter Andrew Bosch /Miami Herald via AP)
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