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So Mother Nature has a built-in self-correcting mechanism for dealing with invasive species. Works for me!
When it’s Christmas in Okeechobee,
Brightly colored Iguanas falling from the trees.....
I’m believing that an air rifle would do a good job on that iguana.
It's not like a little random gun noise would be out of place in South Florida. Let's just call it a backyard drive by.
I am moving back to Florida in 18 months beforew globull warming freezes us to death. I will enjoy the following on Al Gore day:
Here’s a recipe of truly Mexican. “Iguana stew”. You may substitute iguana with chicken, but that’s not recommended. OK go ahead use Chicken I DID. :-)
* 1-Iguana
* 2-onions
* 1-tablespoon of salt
* 6-8-carrots
* 1-tablespoon of celantro
* 1 small ball of recardo
* 1-cup vinegar
* 1-lime
* 1-sweet pepper
* 1-tablespoon of black pepper
* 1/2-cabbage
* 2-cloves of garlic
* 1-can of diced tomato
* coconut oil
Skin and clean iguana, then wash it in a mixture of vinegar and lime. After that, mix all seasonings and spices together in a bowl and rub them into the meat. Leave the rubbed meat for half an hour. Pour coconut oil in a pot, just to cover the bottom and place it on the fire.
When the oil is hot, put in the iguana meat, then cook it for another half an hour, turning a few times and adding a bit of water if needed. During that time slice the carrots, tomatoes and cabbage. Add them to the meat and cook for another half an hour. Serve with rice and beans.
Iguanas? Save the Burmese pythons!
That’s why they weren’t here in the first place!
Soft heart, yet no resolve to take the required action. This sort of hand-wringing is a problem all across the world. In Australia, for example, many people still refuse to kill invasive cane toads, yet these amphibians wreak havoc in Queensland.
Here in America, many soft hearts refuse to take the necessary steps to cull our feral horses and burros.
Sadly, looking the other way and hoping someone else will solve the problem doesn't make the problem go away.
I wish I was in Tijuana
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Wish I was in Sarasota
eating barbecued
iguana.
They'll be replaced by an army of Canada geese. Your dock will collapse under the weight of the poop.
A fun game Flying Iquana, getting a little .22 and a red-dot scope.
A two man team, first man shoots under it to pop it in the air, second man hit it at the arc.
Give style points and points for hits.
I love Iguanas, do rescue when one comes my way. That said, it’s much more humane to shoot them than let them freeze to death. They shouldn’t have been imported to this country anyway. People buy them when they’re cute little green lizards not thinking that someday they’ll be 5 feet long, need a very specialized diet (they’re vegetarians), and maintain much of their wild characteristics. Why these people haven’t contacted rescue organizations, they’re in every state, I don’t know.
Cindie
My standing doctrine for treating these critters is "shoot on sight". If mother nature wants to lend a hand, more power to it.
“If somebody is looking to trap them, I guess right now would be a good time because they’re not moving,” she said.”
If they are not moving, how do they get into the trap?
It will be about 74 degrees, sunny and clear in Southern California today!
Iguanas aren’t particularly harmful although they look dangerous.
But wouldn’t it be nice if all the pythons and boas that have been let loose in Florida by nutso hobbists would die. Those things are dangerous to man and beast.
Very cold last night and another cold wave is on the way for the weekend here in South Florida. Hopefully this will kill off almost every iguana. I hate them!
Kamikaze iguanas fall from Florida's frozen trees
The lizards go into a type of hibernation when the temperature drops below around 9 degrees C, all body functions but the heart switching off and blood flow cut to a minimum.
It means they lose their grip on branches and the creatures, which are common in the "sunshine state", plunge out of the trees.
The lizards, which can grow up to five feet long, then lie grey and appear dead until the temperature rises again, at which time they usually revive.
I was going to post this as an article but when I searched and found this thread I decided to just ping everybody here.