The island of Guam has a real problem with snakes. Brown tree snakes to be precise, which probably came in via uninspected air cargo. Having no natural predators on Guam, they quickly multiple, until, according to this report:
… more than 2 million brown tree snakes inhabit Guam, with as many as 13,000 per square mile in some areas.
The snakes are non-poisonous to humans but they feast rapaciously on birds and get into electrical wiring causing blackouts and are just generally undesirable and intrusive. There is also concern that having established a beachhead in Guam, the snakes’ next target for invasion may be the Hawaiian islands where “…they could inflict up to $2.14 billion in economic damages in addition to damaging local wildlife populations.”
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