Pesky Iguanas Cost Florida City $1.8M in Emergency Repairs

NBC Miami ^ | January 21, 2020

[nickcarraway]

Invasive iguanas burrowing into the soft dirt around an aging dam cost a Florida city $1.8 million in emergency repairs.

Employees noticed last year that water was seeping round the edges of a decades-old weir that controls water delivery in West Palm Beach, the Palm Beach Post reported.

“The sheet piling was getting pretty old and needed to be replaced, but the digging by the burrowing animals like iguanas made it more vulnerable,” said Poonam Kalkat, director of public utilities for West Palm Beach. “I can’t say how much the iguanas were the cause because it’s an older structure, but they definitely made the situation worse.”

[Wally_Kalbacken]

Q. What’s a Poonam Kalkat?

A. About three dollars, maybe four.

[a fool in paradise]

Invasive species is a xenophobic term. < /s >

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

“I wish I was in Tiajuana
Eating barbequed iguana.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyCEexG9xjw

[ronnie raygun]

Iguana problem? send the chinese over to eat them

[major_gaff]

Tastes just like (General Tso’s) chicken...

[Tax-chick]

I’m fond of reptiles ... but meat.

[Hot Tabasco]

Kern told the newspaper that female iguanas dig burrows to lay their eggs.

There's two Florida guys who have a youtube channel highlighting their hunts for iguanas.

In one video they were dissecting one female and she had 40 eggs inside her.......With the potential of that many offspring, it's no wonder they're multiplying exponentially......

[Magnum44]

They don’t have great manners either...

[Wonder Warthog]

Does Florida have nutria yet???

[Does so]

A Burmese Python found in The Everglades had 74 eggs.

Iguanas also lay eggs after digging into mulch piles—much-used in Florida yard designs.

[SgtHooper]

Just a few days ago, there was a warning the peeps down there need to watch out for falling lizards, since the weather was quite cold.

[mabarker1]

Iguana on the Half Shell ?

[Chode]

invasive species

[mabarker1]

demonrat iguanas !?!?!?

[Chode]

pretty much