The News-Press and Naples Daily News asked Kodiak Hengstebeck of the FWC 10 questions about this year's Python Challenge.

Taylor Stanberry became the first woman to win Florida's annual python challenge last year by catching 60 pythons during the 10-day competition.

Defending champion Taylor Stanberry entered Florida's annual python challenge last-minute. She provided an update midway through the 2026 competition.

The Florida Python Challenge is an annual competition to help control the invasive Burmese python population. Hunters must humanely kill captured pythons, and decapitation is not considered a humane ...

Python hunters in Florida will begin competing in the state’s annual removal competition one minute after the clock strikes midnight on Friday.

Also known as the "Python Huntress," Amy Siewe calls the annual Florida Python Challenge 'a circus and counterproductive.' Here's why.