[Rummyfan]

Geez, they’re harmless enough.... Is this really necessary?

[Hot Tabasco]

Is this really necessary?

Yes

[Blood of Tyrants]

Are you serious? They eat everything and they have no natural predators and they dig deep burrows that wash out sidewalks, roads, canals, and embankments. There is an episode of Dirty Jobs where one of Mile Row’s jobs is iguana eradicator. Watch it.

[Mr. K]

Eating all your crops and fruits is harmless? Damaging powerlines?

Eventually an invasive species eats all the food sources and becomes dangerous, or all starve to death.

[GaltAdonis]

"... they’re harmless enough.... Is this really necessary? ..."

They are NOT harmless.

About 30 years ago I was renting a house with 3 roommates,
and one of them had a 'pet' iguana - about 3 1/2 feet long the
thing was. He (the roommate) frequently let it out it's cage, and it would
have free run of the house. Granted, it was a large house, but....

Until one day it lunged out from behind a couch and bit someone,
totally unprovoked, on the leg as he was walking by.
It stayed locked in it's cage after that.

Nasty, ill-tempered beasts with a nasty disposition, and sharp pointy teeth.
Not suitable 'pet' material - not at all.

In my opinion they should NOT have 'pampered' invasive
species status. They should remain in their native habitat.
Whatever hell-hole that is.

[liberalh8ter]

Absolutely. Aside from what others have posted, they cause enormous damage to sea walls. Their tunneling weakens the sea wall along with structures (such as walkways, etc.) above the tunnels. My neighbor just had to replace his sea wall and re-pour the backyard sidewalk thanks to these nasty critters.

[Clutch Martin]

They are invasive just like the Burmese python is invasive in the Everglades.

Another invasive is the African snail, which are sizable, they get up on these Adobe structures and cinder block structures and they suck the minerals out of the material which weakens the wall.

There’s no problem in that these invasive species are all edible including the lionfish which now inhabit a lot of reefs around Florida and down into the Caribbean.

They don’t belong here and as I said the good news is they’re all edible. I wouldn’t eat any of it but still a lot of people do.

Other invasives are:
Praying Mantis
Ladybug
Stink bug
Nutria

A female Burmese python can mate and that sperm can fertilize her eggs for 10 years!

It has been said that the Burmese python could be in GAMAL within 75 to 100 years.

Where is GAMAL?

Georgia Alabama Mississippi Arkansas and Louisiana

[Bob434]

There isman infestation of them there. They are totally out of control there.

[Lurker]

“Geez, they’re harmless enough....”

They’re not harmless. They are an invasive species and are doing real damage.

L

[gundog]

Check YouTube. Lots of iguana “services” in South Florida. Their burrowing can ruin bridges, and there’s a surprising (to some) amount of agriculture down there.