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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
03-08-2024, 09:41 AM
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They -- iguanas -- are not "a problem", I don't think. In some areas, a nuisance, to be sure. I haven't seen one in the immediate neighborhood, but they're common in some parts of town. Knight anoles, OTOH, are more common and -- to my perception -- a much bigger nuisance, at the least. Full-grown Knight anoles will eat nearly anything they can catch, including small birds. And they're ugly, to boot. :eek:
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
03-08-2024, 08:02 AM
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I am fond of them, too, especially since they eat lots and lots of bugs! Skinks were common here when I was growing up, they are scarce nowadays. Not entirely sure why, but predation by non-native lizards is a decent guess. We have large populations of various small anoles, they're very common, but non-native Knight anoles (quite large and predatory) and agamas take their toll. Alas. Fortunately the largest -- iguanas -- are mostly herbivorous. Not good garden citizens.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
03-07-2024, 08:12 PM
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I haven't seen a blue-tail skink in years! Used to be very common here.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
07-22-2021, 11:08 AM
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Their numbers are estimated to be in the many thousands in the Everglades... there are no predators (except the python hunters) to keep the population in check. Some of the hunters have resorted to tagging the females in order to lure the males. Whatever works, I guess.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
07-20-2021, 02:38 PM
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Burmese pythons! :eek: Oh, they are a scourge here! The state of Florida has a bounty on them, professional python hunters go out into the Everglades to trap and kill them. The snakes have decimated most of the mammals in the Everglades -- all the rabbits, raccoons, possums, even some deer. There's even a video (sorry, I don't have the link, but you could probably Google it) of a battle between a HUGE python and an equally large alligator...gruesome, neither survived it. But years ago, at my former workplace, we found a python on the property, actually it was about two feet from the office back door... not a huge one, as Burmese pythons go, this one was maybe 7-8 feet. We trapped it and put it in a large dog crate, in the shade, waiting for a reptile guy to come get it... and we learned, in the process, just exactly which staff members were afraid of snakes and which weren't. The fellow who was the supervisor of the farm's outside workers was so terrified of this python that he wouldn't come within 100 feet of the crate. For the record, I am not afraid of snakes, although I don't want anything to do with the venomous ones. Corn snakes and the like are no problem, I wasn't afraid of the python, either.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
07-05-2021, 07:06 AM
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Very close indeed! Usually these kinds of turtles (a "slider", I think) are very wary and slip into the water as soon as they sense your approach. Great image!
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
06-13-2021, 06:04 AM
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Skinks were very common here when I was a kid. Then they weren't...I have no idea what happened to them. Then, a few years ago, at my former workplace (out in the boonies), lo! a skink! The first one I had seen in decades. Maybe they went into hiding, like cicadas... (which, for which thanks, we do not have, although I imagine the skinks and anoles would gorge on them if we did)
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
04-09-2021, 01:59 PM
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From the archives, a 'gator at the Shark Valley station of Everglades National Park...
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
04-06-2021, 11:53 AM
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Sir Iguana with part of his harem, at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden. I believe he's dressed in mating-season colors.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
02-11-2021, 05:59 PM
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Ooooh -- is that last one a blue-tail skink?
We used to have a fair population of them when I was a kid. Didn't see one for decades and then encountered one at my former workplace about 5-6 years ago. Haven't seen one since. No idea why they disappeared, maybe the big anoles wiped them out :(
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
11-29-2016, 07:58 AM
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Big Daddy iguana, and part of his harem
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
02-24-2014, 10:02 AM
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From the first image, I thought it was one of our common brown anoles, but I see -- from the second image -- that it surely isn't.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
02-23-2014, 03:56 PM
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I think this is an Agama... shot at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden last year...
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