We had iguana in Honduras it was like greasy chicken with fish skin...
-Curt
On Friday, January 5, 2018, 2:28:17 PM EST, OK Don via Mercedes
<mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
Iguana tail is supposed to be good eating - though I've never had the
opportunity to try it. Since they are an invasive species in FL - you'd
think people would be encouraged to collect and eat them.
On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 12:54 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> Why ornamental figs? Why not grow a real one? If you don't like figs ship
> them north.
>
> On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 1:45 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes <
> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>
> > It got down to freezing the last two nights. Might make it up to the low
> > 50s today, but it’s bright and sunny (thank goodness!)
> >
> > Iguanas are more of a south Florida thing. We do have lizards in our
> > trees and bushes, however, but I haven’t seen any fall out. Kitty will
> > alert me if that happens, as she likes to patrol the front windows to
> watch
> > the ornamental fig tree this time of year. It’s a (literal) beehive of
> > activity with bees, birds and chicken of the trees in it as it goes from
> > flowering to producing fruit.
> >
> > -D
> >
> >
> > > On Jan 5, 2018, at 11:28 AM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes <
> > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > *-- Here's something you don't see every day:* The extreme cold in
> > Florida
> > > has led to frozen iguanas falling out of trees. The Post's Herman Wong
> > > explains
> > > <https://s2.washingtonpost.com/2f1749/5a4f830efe1ff6657b19d7bf/
> > YXN0cmFzZm9AYmxtLmdvdg%3D%3D/48/74/b30e639bcfaf933992e5f3db85511ad0>that
> > > "green iguanas, like all reptiles, are coldblooded animals, so when the
> > > temperature falls to a certain level iguanas become immobile." "Under
> 50
> > > degrees Fahrenheit, they become sluggish. Under 40 degrees, their blood
> > > stops moving as much, [Kristen Sommers of the Florida Fish and Wildlife
> > > Conservation Commission] said. They like to sit in trees, and 'it’s
> > become
> > > cold enough that they fall out.'"
> > >
> > > Dan - is falling lizards a safety threat down in Tampa?
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