Posted on 02/01/2026 7:06:01 PM PST by dynachrome
It’s raining reptiles!
Iguanas left virtually paralyzed by Florida’s recent unseasonable cold snap are dropping like flies from trees, leaving people to scoop them up by the armload.
When temperatures plummet, the cold-blooded creatures become immobile, and in Florida, where upwards of 1 million iguanas are estimated to typically laze in the treetops, that means torrents of reptiles falling.
“They’re like little bags of ice,” said Jessica Kilgore of the “nuisance animal removal service” Iguana Solutions as she hefted a 10-pound iguana in her arms.
Usually, Floridians are prohibited from handling the iguanas themselves, but this winter, the situation is so severe that the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission decided to launch temporary collection sites across the panhandle.
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They should be killing them since they’re an invasive species?
Wonder if he found his 20 footer yet?
My first thought. I like roasted iguana.
She was out picking them off the ground.
Said it was like Christmas morning.
I assume you are talking about the iguana solutions lady.
I think her name is Jessie.
I don’t think so. I just hope he doesn’t go the way of Steve Irwin with a snake or ‘gator.
That’s the one. I had no idea that air guns were so powerful.
Orange Iguana, General Tso’s Iguana, iguana and broccoli. The Chinese restaurants will be getting in on the action.
Not even Haitians will touch them.
Point the output/discharge vent towards the swamp and fire the wood chipper up.
They pay iguana eradication services to go around and shoot them with pellet rifles.
People are the last ones that I would rely on for what I should be doing all the time.
Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should.
There’s a guy who uses a vacuum to suck them up and into the boat.
A long time ago, I lived in Florida. Husband jad a really nice boat and enjoyed fishing, so I had plenty of Grouper. Super yum.
My local Safeway has terrific fish. Wild Alaskan salmon is my fave, and they just started with wild Alaskan flounder filets. Well-priced and found in the freezer
“ Paralyzed, yes, but are most of them dead, or are they just five more degrees away from waking up again?”
Every couple of years there is a story about someone who finds an iguana in this condition and decides to collect them and take them to the state wildlife people. Of course during the warm car ride over there the iguana becomes mobile again and now the do-gooder has an active iguana in their car. I imagine that’s pretty exciting.
Daring cook makes frozen iguana tacos after falling from trees in Florida
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