A bright point in the well publicized everglade python infestation is a new technique used to find the always difficult to find python- affix a tracking beacon to a male python, and let him lead you to a female. Go figure. Using this method- an 18 foot female python, with over 70 eggs was discovered. Go figure. If I recall correctly , in previous years there were well publicized hunts that failed to find many pythons- it seems the techniques and hauls have been refined and improved considerably, since the first Python hunt in 2013- with over 1,600 entrants and fewer than 70 pythons captured.