A word of warning: If you’re afraid of snakes or blood-sucking insects, then this video showing a giant python being eaten alive by hundreds of ticks will almost assuredly give you the creeps. It’s ...

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

A Gold Coast snake catcher who came to the rescue of a carpet python covered in hundreds of ticks and swimming in a backyard pool, says he's never seen anything like it in 26 years of business.

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.