It takes a lot to give professional snake wranglers the creeps, but it happened when a group of hunters captured a python plagued by blood-sucking ticks in Florida’s Everglades. If there’s ...

By Mark Price. Updated March 25, 2024 7:54 AM. ... “I think this python likely lost its eye from ticks, but not likely the one in place, based off (the tick’s) size,” he wrote.

Pictures Showing Python Covered With 500 Ticks Go Viral: 'It Felt Like 'Holding A Bag of Marbles' Published Jan 11, 2019 at 7:51 AM EST Updated Jan 11, 2019 at 9:10 AM EST ...

However, before the python could be humanely euthanized, someone had to reach into a mound of sawgrass and grab the snake by the head — likely bursting multiple blood-filled ticks in the process.

“One of the gnarliest things I’ve seen, this python we caught had a tick over where it’s eye should be,” wildlife adventure tour guide Chris Gillette wrote in a March 21 Facebook post.

By Mark Price. Updated March 25, 2024 6:54 AM. ... “I think this python likely lost its eye from ticks, but not likely the one in place, based off (the tick’s) size,” he wrote.

Invasive Burmese python caught in Florida Everglades had large tick feeding in its hollow eye-socket, photos show.

Wildlife adventure guide Chris Gillette reports he came across this python with a tick feeding in its eye socket while in Florida’s Everglades. ... Mark Price The Charlotte Observer 704-358-5149 ...