Epoch Times: PUNTA GORDA, Fla.–This weekend is expected to be one of the coldest in four years for South Floridians, prompting the National Weather Service in Miami to issue a Falling Iguana Alert via Twitter.
Jan. 30 is predicted to be the coldest day locally since 2018.
South Florida occasionally sees temperatures dip into the 30s and 40s overnight, which causes the cold-blooded reptiles to become “temporarily stunned,” until temperatures warm up. They are known to sleep in trees and when immobilized by the cold, they “stiffen and lose their grip on the branches,” and fall to the ground or sometimes on an unsuspecting passerby.
Iguanas are not indigenous to Florida and are considered invasive by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission (FWC). Native to Central and South America and Mexico, they prefer warmer climates, making Florida ideal. However, when temperatures reach 40 and below, they slip into a cold-induced slumber. Instead of dying, they thaw out and return to be a pest another day. more
Falling iguanas?
https://youtu.be/6CrD0sOgEsk
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“Instead of dying, they thaw out and return to be a pest another day.”
The democrat voter.
The snow blocking my access to the BBQ in my back yard in as high as my nuts.
I would trade that for falling iguanas any day.
Go out with a tennis racquet,shake at tree and launch a few over the fence. Could be a whole new sport.
Iguana, the other green meat.
I heard of this on Mexican radio…reminded me of the time I was in Tijuana, eating barbecued iguana…
All I hear on the radio these days are ads for treatment of yer fallen Iguana!
Because frogs and locusts are so…”Old Testament”.
I’ve always heard they carry salmonella (and other diseases?).
So..are they safe to eat anyway? And if you have to cook them to a high enough temperature to kill (whatever), are they still tender and tasty?
If I were living in Florida, and killed them for sport, sorry all you gastronomes, I’d be feeding them to the ‘gators.
If you are injured by a falling Iguana you may be entitled to compensation!
Call the Law Offices of Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe
1-800-EAT-IGIE
I don’t think that we’ll ever have a problem with falling iquanas up here in the Pacific NW. It’s too cold for lizards and other cold blooded critters around here except for snakes in the Summer. We just have murder hornets now to worry about (maybe) over in the Bellingham area.
The falling Iguanas
drift by my window
The falling Iguanas
of green and brown
Forecast: Continued cold with areas of falling iguanas. Chance of freezing iguanas. Accumulations of one to three iguanas possible overnight. Spotty iguanas tomorrow becoming mostly dead road kill by afternoon.
Iguanas are fun, harmless, adorable. They are not pests. And, by the way, they are totally edible and taste like… chicken.
Now I know where the term lizard breath comes from. On my dinner plate? That bees a big hell no. Though I suppose, side of grilled bugs would go good with it, hey.
The weather loves me there.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10456625/Lakefront-ice-snow-creates-CREEPY-ice-sculptures-including-Grim-Reaper-lookalike.html