Iguanas Invade Cape Coral, Florida Neighborhood: Reptiles Dig Seawalls Causing Safety Concern

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[driftdiver]

Alligator is good. Iguana is not the same.

[molson209]

In Central America they call them Tree Chickens

[mowowie]

I’m from the NE so lizards aren’t really a part of my life.

20 yrs ago I was was visiting a friend in Florida and all I can remember is the crunching noise at night if I walked on the grass.

[JoeProBono]

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

I was thinking the same thing. Hell, we would make pets of them here in Georgia.

[Rembrandt]

I had baked iguana in Saigon 10 years ago. The meat from the back is delectable and tender, better than gator tail meat, lots better.

[Fai Mao]

“A 12ga is overkill. I’d just get a .25 caliber, high-power air rifle and snipe them for free. I’m sure someone out there would love to roast them up!”

A Wrist Rocket sling shot and 5/8 inch hex nuts (14mm) will do a pretty good job as well. And the ammunition is probably easier to get.

[Jack Hydrazine]

http://www.pyramydair.com/a/Ammo/Airgun_pellets/384/calibers_0_25

[theneanderthal]

Gotta watch that irregularly shaped ammo. They tend to assume strange curves down range.

I'm a snap shot wiz with a wrist rocket. Two out of three tossed beer cans. No aiming just muscle memory. Many years of archery as a youth trained the muscles.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

I’m surprised the Burmese Pythons haven’t eaten them yet.

[Secret Agent Man]

caption: The New Sport: Freerun Iguana Chicken - Who Balks First?

[GladesGuru]

Back in college, a friend built a dredge he used to fill what is not the Walmart on Cape Coral. The iguanas were five feet long years ago, and not at all uncommon.

The “Endangered Florida Panther” team uses a plane with obsolete tracking gear (mo’ bureaucraps at the Feeding Trough that way), to track those pampered panthers. I have watched that place make the usual higher altitude passes and the final low pass over the “eco-reserve” just on the other side of one of the canals in his development.

Cats, ‘crats, huge reptiles and . . . Snakes Alive, it a python place, too!

[Fai Mao]

“Gotta watch that irregularly shaped ammo. They tend to assume strange curves down range.”

I find the hex nuts fly pretty straight.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Got no problem with Florida critters, but it's getting so you've got to strap a board across your butt to keep from being swallowed by some damned critter that can't understand English.

We even have some Spanish speaking Anoles all the way up here.

[GladesGuru]

“...it’s getting so you’ve got to strap a board across your butt to keep from being swallowed by some damned critter that can’t understand English”.

What kind of board can we strap across our butts to keep from being swallowed up by some collectivist beast?

Ans: One from an ammo box.

;-)

[SWAMPSNIPER]

They're fun to watch, just can't understand what they say.

The hand waving is part of their breeding behavior, they get up high and wave at the lady lizards.

They are forcing the little Carolina Anoles out.

[Constitution Day]

Ross says the iguanas have become a growing problem in her southeast Cape Coral neighborhood over the last year. She says she's tried a number of tactics to scare them off for good.

An enterprising resident should open a barbecued iguana stand!

[Zionist Conspirator]