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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did the trees start exploding yet?
Get rid of them all.
I wish I was in Tiajuana
Eating barbequed iguana
They’s ain’t good eatin.
Screw that, commies.
Wall of Voodoo. Mexican radio.
There’s a guy in Florida on youtube doing a boomin’ business of all the incasive lionfish he and his friends can spear. Those can be filleted and sold to restaurants.
Why? They are an invasive species. There should be open season on them 365.25 days of the year.
And dollars to doughnuts they taste "just like chicken."
Weird the Haitians and Jamaicans aren’t rounding them up and barbequing them.
is this the night of the iguana?
Alligator lizards in the air...
Good for him!
Sounds like good meat for a gumbo.
**Paralyzed, yes, but are most of them dead, or are they just five more degrees away from waking up again?
**What do you do with dead iguanas, just drop them into the
green bin for bio matter waste products?
I doubt if dogs or raccoons want them for anything.
Iguana hold your haaaaand!!
(No iggies in Central FL, the gators have to find shelter in the lakes.)
“They’s ain’t good eatin.”
That’s not what I heard on the mexican radio.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyCEexG9xjw
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