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

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

“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.

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

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

Hunters find invasive python “being chewed to pieces” by countless ticks as she guarded a nest in the Florida Everglades, video shows.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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