These little lizards kind of give me the creeps — more so, when they get indoors! You’ve got some great shots here, Barbara. I’m fascinated by its tiny hands!
Thank you, Debbie. I’ve never had a lizard in the house before but I imagine that would be a startling encounter. Less creepy than seeing a spider, though, for me!
There aren’t any house centipedes here to my eyes. I looked them up on google. They look creepy! But I’m glad to know that house centipedes eat spiders!
2021 hard freeze killed all the green 5-6” lizards. There were no lizards for a whole year! Finally they did come back so tiny, the size of my pinky and camouflage brown. Now we have a comfortable amount of lizards. I’ve never had a lizard come inside my house, but they do love to patrol for bugs along the perimeter of the outside of my house. Last summer I saw a 5” green lizard next to my back door with a small brown cricket halfway down the lizard’s throat. When the lizard saw me it froze. I ignored him. He finished his dinner and went underneath the house to hide. Lizards are beneficial creatures! I’m happy to share my outdoor space with them. I have seen their throats bellow up and it is fascinating!
That’s sad that a hard freeze can wipe out a whole population of lizards but I’m glad some managed to survive and come back to live happily in your garden. It sounds like you have a mutually beneficial relationship with them, as long as you respect each others personal spaces. 😉
Oh my – this lizard looks like it is fluorescent green and would light up in the dark. What a surprise to see this at the Gardens. I think I’d jump a mile if it ran along a branch! I visited friends of the family in Puerto Rico for Easter vacation in high school senior year. Their apartment building had two huge tropical bushes of some kind out front where the lizards liked to sun during the heat of the day. Whenever we got close to the bushes the lizards would run out and run around the front of the building. I admit I was scared of them.
He was only about 6 inches long and actually kind of cute. This one was on the move, looking for a mate, I assume, practicing inflating that brightly colored pink dewlap as he went along. My camera didn’t manage to catch if fully inflated but it was pretty spectacular. Now that you mention the lizards in Puerto Rico I do remember visiting relatives in Florida who had anoles around, some of them would sun themselves on the porch railings and some even came inside the house. I suppose people get used to them after living there a while. They are harmless.
He looked much bigger in your picture – whew! I could see that pink flap and wondered about it. The people I stayed with were okay with them too as they will run from you … I thought they were scary until the tarantula fell from a palm tree onto the car roof as Werner pulled up in the car from the restaurant’s parking garage. It crawled inside the car and Alfonsa and I wouldn’t get in the car and took a taxi home from the restaurant. Thankfully I was leaving for home the next day – we took a taxi to the airport as he could not produce a tarantula carcass.
I follow an Australian blogger who lives in the middle of the bush country and he gets these big lizards walking around his house and smaller lizards running around the house … I’d never sleep.
Yikes, Linda!!! I nearly fainted when I read about the tarantula falling from the palm tree onto the car roof! I don’t blame you in the least for taking a taxi after that. There’s a lot to be said for living farther north when you consider all the insects, arachnids and lizards so prevalent in the tropics… I’d rather deal with snow.
We were horrified Barbara. It was dark on top of it, so we couldn’t have seen it in the car. But Werner drove back to the apartment and didn’t get bitten, but we both refused. I remember a friend of mine who lived in Virginia, but grew up in South Carolina and described the Palmetto bugs that were everywhere and got in the car, in your house, in your clothing, so yes, I agree with you. I could not deal with the bugs. As it is, all this rain, will no doubt bring centipedes. So far I’ve had a mild case of little ants, same as last year. In the past, after I quit having the perimeter of the house sprayed to thwart centipedes and spiders, I had loads of tiny ants everywhere, from mid-April through mid-May. I think I’ve been spared (unless they are just late arriving).
Cool! I’ve always been fascinated by lizards. My daughter calls me a lizard because she says I am cold blooded and have always enjoyed warming myself in the sun!
Ha, I love those randy anoles!
Lol – I didn’t see the object of his desire!
oh what a magic ♥
He’s a fascinating little creature. ♡
These little lizards kind of give me the creeps — more so, when they get indoors! You’ve got some great shots here, Barbara. I’m fascinated by its tiny hands!
Thank you, Debbie. I’ve never had a lizard in the house before but I imagine that would be a startling encounter. Less creepy than seeing a spider, though, for me!
I love to see the lizards because lizards eat the bugs! This one is a greenie meanie!!
That’s how I feel about house centipedes! I used to be afraid of them until I learned that they hunt down and eat spiders!
There aren’t any house centipedes here to my eyes. I looked them up on google. They look creepy! But I’m glad to know that house centipedes eat spiders!
2021 hard freeze killed all the green 5-6” lizards. There were no lizards for a whole year! Finally they did come back so tiny, the size of my pinky and camouflage brown. Now we have a comfortable amount of lizards. I’ve never had a lizard come inside my house, but they do love to patrol for bugs along the perimeter of the outside of my house. Last summer I saw a 5” green lizard next to my back door with a small brown cricket halfway down the lizard’s throat. When the lizard saw me it froze. I ignored him. He finished his dinner and went underneath the house to hide. Lizards are beneficial creatures! I’m happy to share my outdoor space with them. I have seen their throats bellow up and it is fascinating!
That’s sad that a hard freeze can wipe out a whole population of lizards but I’m glad some managed to survive and come back to live happily in your garden. It sounds like you have a mutually beneficial relationship with them, as long as you respect each others personal spaces. 😉
Oh my – this lizard looks like it is fluorescent green and would light up in the dark. What a surprise to see this at the Gardens. I think I’d jump a mile if it ran along a branch! I visited friends of the family in Puerto Rico for Easter vacation in high school senior year. Their apartment building had two huge tropical bushes of some kind out front where the lizards liked to sun during the heat of the day. Whenever we got close to the bushes the lizards would run out and run around the front of the building. I admit I was scared of them.
He was only about 6 inches long and actually kind of cute. This one was on the move, looking for a mate, I assume, practicing inflating that brightly colored pink dewlap as he went along. My camera didn’t manage to catch if fully inflated but it was pretty spectacular. Now that you mention the lizards in Puerto Rico I do remember visiting relatives in Florida who had anoles around, some of them would sun themselves on the porch railings and some even came inside the house. I suppose people get used to them after living there a while. They are harmless.
He looked much bigger in your picture – whew! I could see that pink flap and wondered about it. The people I stayed with were okay with them too as they will run from you … I thought they were scary until the tarantula fell from a palm tree onto the car roof as Werner pulled up in the car from the restaurant’s parking garage. It crawled inside the car and Alfonsa and I wouldn’t get in the car and took a taxi home from the restaurant. Thankfully I was leaving for home the next day – we took a taxi to the airport as he could not produce a tarantula carcass.
I follow an Australian blogger who lives in the middle of the bush country and he gets these big lizards walking around his house and smaller lizards running around the house … I’d never sleep.
Yikes, Linda!!! I nearly fainted when I read about the tarantula falling from the palm tree onto the car roof! I don’t blame you in the least for taking a taxi after that. There’s a lot to be said for living farther north when you consider all the insects, arachnids and lizards so prevalent in the tropics… I’d rather deal with snow.
We were horrified Barbara. It was dark on top of it, so we couldn’t have seen it in the car. But Werner drove back to the apartment and didn’t get bitten, but we both refused. I remember a friend of mine who lived in Virginia, but grew up in South Carolina and described the Palmetto bugs that were everywhere and got in the car, in your house, in your clothing, so yes, I agree with you. I could not deal with the bugs. As it is, all this rain, will no doubt bring centipedes. So far I’ve had a mild case of little ants, same as last year. In the past, after I quit having the perimeter of the house sprayed to thwart centipedes and spiders, I had loads of tiny ants everywhere, from mid-April through mid-May. I think I’ve been spared (unless they are just late arriving).
He’s beautiful. ♥
Devilishly handsome, I’d say. 😉
Cool! I’ve always been fascinated by lizards. My daughter calls me a lizard because she says I am cold blooded and have always enjoyed warming myself in the sun!
It seems like a lot of us, both human and animal (I’m thinking of cats, too), are solar-powered. 😉