The invasion of the iguanas
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Those curly tails are nasty. They dig under patios, home foundations and walkways and leave large turds for a lizard. Then when the die in the pool, they swell up and stink to hell!
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I will socialize with an iguana over a cane fan every day of the week. If we are going to eradicate something, let’s focus on a truly loathesome species. The iguana is one of the nicer things you will see in Miami.
I vote for the curly tails. The iguana has some style. The curly tails on the other hand will take a dump right in front of you and be 10 yards away in a flash when you make your first move.
You have never stepped in Iguana crap I bet. I was in Marathon and the entire Keys are covered with them. I stepped in a huge pile by the pool.
Any air based guns are not considered firearms in Florida so you don’t need a permit or license. Of course that won’t stop a LEO from blowing you away if you’re running around with it. So caveat emptor.
I believe we export rap culture and sugar diabetes.
I'm a Conch but my days in KW were way before the Iguana invasion. Hope you weren't bare-footed when you stepped in it.
In the same category, Racoon crap is no fun either, although I never stepped in it. You do know they love dumping in pools.....and that's a problem. Can stain the pool in addition to the costs of serious shock treatment to kill off the potential health problems they bring with them....
Our LEO's aren't very bright.
My son and I had his bowfishing rig out at the bridge going to Tierra Verde when a couple of cops came up and starting harrassing him. Even after showing them my fishing license and the law that states we were 100 percent in compliance, he still gave me crap and his dumb butt partner tied to tell me that any spearfishing gear (bow fishing gear falls under the same regulations) is strictly prohibited from nearby St. Pete Beach and he would arrest me if I took it there.
St Pete beach is the proud location of the worlds largest spearfishing tournament.
https://www.stpeteopen.com/
Time for the pressure washer on that one....Toes be damned...……….
I've been seeing these geckos up here in the panhandle the last 7-8 years. They come out at night and hang around outside the windows and snatch bugs that are attracted to the light. Can't be good for the native frogs and lizards we have up here. I smashed three of them this weekend.
I've been seeing these geckos up here in the panhandle the last 7-8 years. They come out at night and hang around outside the windows and snatch bugs that are attracted to the light. Can't be good for the native frogs and lizards we have up here. I smashed three of them this weekend.
They’re Mediterranean house geckos I believe. Unlike the common (or really Asian) house geckos they get in South Florida, they’re not considered problematic. The common house geckos which are twice as large and usually a bright green eat smaller local amphibians and lizards. The Mediterranean house gecko we get here in Tallahassee is technically invasive (they’ve been breeding here since 1910) but because they only eat bugs and have not been seen to have detrimental effect on local treefrogs (unlike some invasive Cuban treefrogs) they’re not considered particularly problematic. In fact, they’re probably just filling in a role for an already extinct species or a niche that wasn’t already filled. At my old house on Twin Lakes, I’d frequently see both the Mediterranean house geckos and two species of tree frogs happily sitting together under my lights.
So unlike some other truly problematic invasive species like pythons, lionfish, iguanas, tegus, etc...I don’t think you need to go out of the way to murder them. But on the other hand they ARE nonnative (only native gecko is the tiny reef gecko that only lives in the Keys) so I won’t shed a tear for the cute little guys either.
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