My mom and I recently drove out to Florida to visit with my sister and brother-in-law. We brought my dog, Luna, with us and she got to play with their dog. They seemed to have a lot of fun playing with each other on land, but he was not happy when she got into the pool as he is scared of the pool.
When we were in Florida, I didn’t get out with my camera as much as I had hoped to. Because of that, I didn’t get pictures of much of what I saw during the trip including osprey, blue heron, and pelicans. I did, however, photograph two types of lizards.
With the lizards, when I saw the neck of one of them, I realized that it was some type of anole. When I looked up the anoles that live in Florida, it looked as though it is a brown anole which are not native to Florida or the other states that they have been introduced to. They are native to Cuba and the Bahamas.
The brown anoles scientific name is Anolis sagrei. They eat insects such as crickets, grasshoppers, spiders, and cockroaches. They will also eat the eggs of other lizards and may even eat small fish. With eating the eggs of other lizards, they might eat the eggs of the green anole which are native to Florida.
The brown anoles lay their eggs every couple of days and may lay around fifteen to eighteen. The eggs hatch in around four weeks. Brown anoles can grow to be between five and nine inches long. Brown anoles typically like to be on the ground and on low growing vegetation.