It’s creepy, it’s crawly, and it’s still on the prowl near a townhome complex in the west Houston area -- a python that could be up to 15 feet long.

Florida's annual prize-winning hunt for invasive Burmese pythons in the Everglades is slated to begin Aug. 5.

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Kimmel, owner of Martin County Trapping & Wildlife Rescue, had gone out into the Florida Everglades last week hoping to catch a giant Burmese python. He was definitely intimated by the snake, he said, but he isn't known as the Python Cowboy for nothing. The largest python captured in Florida was 18 feet, 8 inches long, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Now wildlife officials estimate there might be as many as 100,000 pythons living in the Everglades. He said he will also receive a payment from Florida's Python Action Team, which pays people to remove the invasive species.