Two developing catasetum spikes devoured!!!what to blame???

[DirtyCoconuts]

I’ve heard that, Kim. I have also heard they tasted like grass. Not too sure I’m into that.

Bufos are disgusting and I would not eat them

The curly tails are oddly appetizing...they look like little
Nuggets. Lol. I am quite sure they don’t taste that way lol

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I also filled all the holes around the screen and foundation line with foam and a round of DE to kill whatever they may be eating too

I’d much rather not have to add another creature to the enemy of the state list.

[Fairorchids]

From a different perspective, I have heard that the Nile monitor lizard has become established in FL. If you invited one of those in, it should take care of the curly tails?

[estación seca]

I've been told iguanas taste like chicken. They were a staple food for Mesoamericans.

[MJG]

Ah you cannibals! Growing up in the Mojave Desert of CA, desert iguanas were our pets. They're pleasant company and we put Barbie clothes on them and played with them in our dollhouses. They ate creosote and lettuce and lived for years in our lizard cages outdoors. I'd as soon eat one as eat my dog! Well maybe not my dog.

[estación seca]

Desert iguanas are too small to bother with. We're talking 6 foot / 190cm tropical iguanas.

[DirtyCoconuts]

These guys are not small lol!

I don’t know them to be too friendly either although people do make them tame.

[DirtyCoconuts]

WAR!!!!!!

Den stratiotes.....my first spike ever

Macro. by J Solo, on Flickr

yesterday this Den remy hartmann spike was covered in pea sized buds about to pop

Macro. by J Solo, on Flickr


and this was a lower newer growth about to open her buds...
Macro. by J Solo, on Flickr

i am also pretty sure that two new growths on catts in the patio were their victims as well..... it is time to get serious...i may be constructing a lava moat....buying a few hundred racer snakes....quitting my job and making a guillie suit

[DirtyCoconuts]

Okay, the carnage continues- i have now lost both spikes on the millennium witchcraft

two more catasteum spikes as well

it is looking like i might not get another bloomer this year if i don't figure something out SOON!!!

so sad....

[My Green Pets]

Set up a camera bro!!

[JScott]

I am a gentle, nature loving, kind of guy. I pick up spiders and take them outside. I love snakes and lizards. And I love ants. Their social structure is so cool, they way they each have a job and they know what their job is, and they communicate with each other, and it's like an ant colony is a giant single organism instead of hundreds of thousands of individuals.

That being said, I hate non-native invasive species. They upset our ecosystem, they harm natural inhabitants. They can completely wipe out native populations. So while I would never kill a spider or kill one of those cute little little lizards that hangs out by my porch lights that are native to my part of Texas, when it comes to non-native invasives... kill them with fire. You trap every curly tail lizard you can find, and you (humanely) kill it.

I'm currently fighting fire ants. they're always bad in Texas, but they are especially bad this year. I use poison. One of the only times I ever use poison, but the Ortho fire ant mound killer works like magic. First, fire ants tend to have a big colony somewhere, then then have little satellite colonies in the area, which are small. Also small are the new colonies that you find during breeding season when the ants take flight to establish new colonies.

Well, so far this year, I have found three HUGE colonies in my yards (I mean huge. Like three or four feet wide), and I keep stepping in them. I've got little white pustules all up and down my legs where those damn ants have stung me when I stepped on a nest. I treated them with that Otho poison (you sprinkle it on and water it in, and they're dead within an hour), and it has worked link a charm. The big colonies are dead, and I am finding an occasional small colony, just a few inches wide, from time to time, but not every day, and before I found the big ones and wiped those out, I was finding five or six little colonies every day.

I support the hunting and killing to pythons in Florida.
I support he poisoning of the non native black birds that have infested Oklahoma (I think they're called grackles, but whatever the proper name, they are black, they flock, they outcompete native birds, they'll push the eggs out of a native bird's nest and steal the nest to use as their own, they roost so heavily on trees that they kill the trees), Those birds have got to go.

Like I said, I love animals of all kinds. Not just the cute ones. I love the spiders and lizards and the snakes, and I am against the wanton killing of wildlife, but non-native invasive species are not wildlife. They are introduced species and they ruin the natural balance of our ecosystem, so I say kill them. Kill them all. Try to do it humanely if you can, but if that is not convenient, then I really don't care how you kill them. Just make them dead.