Burms are non native, that is a fact. Invasive, they are not. They can't go any further North then they are now. They just can't take the cold. Here in Florida we just had one of the worst winters in the last 120 years, or at least the part I live in which is just North of Tampa. And when I say 120 years, it is because records only go back to 1890. How can something be considered invasive if it can only survive in a tiny section of the country. The ENP might be big, but in relation the the U.S. and even the entire North America, it is tiny.

every now and then they find one somewhere else. But that doesn't mean it would make it through a winter. I am sure pythons have been found in northern states. But that doesn't mean they lived through a winter. I can remember last winter or the one before where someone found a frozen boa up north. Frozen, well yeah, that can't possibly survive a winter.

If something can only survive in a tiny pocket it can't be called invasive. What all of this boils down to is the way the media portrays it all. All we have been asking for is the truth. I don't think we will ever see that. The burms really aren't hurting anything, but you will never hear that on the news.

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