Very nice picture, Alice.

Jim

Those long wings are pretty..I had one a few months back, but lately have only seen a couple variety of swallow tails.
I found this little guy monitoring the bug situation very intently

Pretty Longwin, Alice.

Lindsey, does he actually eat your bugs?

They sure do, Ursula. I have a 'staff' of about 6 Cuban anoles inside my cage that survive very nicely on the bugs on my orchids. Wish I could say they get all the bugs but of course they don't. I have the yellow sticky trap cards hanging around my bloomers to attract thrips and there are always lots of those. They're small enough to come through the screening, of course.

I grow my Brugmansias right outside the cage, so I'm hoping they are attracting all the mites away from the orchids most of the time. Lots of different strategies at work when you grow orchids outdoors here.

Ursula, I have a hole at the base of a nearby tree that was probably an animal habit..I've been dumping the contents of pots there during repotting..theres ALWAYS a crowd of anoles there waiting for any critter that comes scrambling out of the mess. One of my Tampa Orcid Club friends even has an anole that visits her happy hour table on the patio to sneak a sip of her rum punch!

Hmmm, if my greenhouse would not be attached to the house, a few little Anoles might be great in doing bug control. I like the "staff" !

Any kind of lizard is helpful for bug control. Mine love it when I toss inchworms on the driveway....until it gets too hot.

I do have anoles in the house quite often, in fact. The cat brings them in.

The anole staff is augmented by a troop of spiders in the top of the cage. I let them build their webs above the 9ft. level and they keep the no-see-ums out of the cage - plus hopefully some thrips and mites as well.

Are you sure this is not a Pokemon go character?

We get anoles in the house sometimes, it is always fun herding them back out. We have an abundance of them on our deck and seriously, the only bug problem I have ever had on the deck plants is with leaf miners on the potted citrus some years. We also have broadheaded and five lined skinks, they are not so cute but they eat roaches so it is always good to have a few of them around. .

While they do look pokey, they are real Spiny backed Orb weavers. I don't think I've ever been poked or bitten by one. Although once again I don't understand the name because they don't make "orb" webs at all, (we have other orb weavers that do) they make beautiful flat, symmetrical webs with long, strong non-stick guy wires that are easy to move, and even have little white "flags" on them so you can see them. http://bugguide.net/node/view/...

If you were poked by one Elaine would that make it a Pokemon anolegotchoos ? It does look like a Pokemon go character..I have never seen an anole before ..

Most people call them geckos, Jeff but they are actually anoles. The native Florida ones are green, but these brown/stripey ones are much more prevalent, and they are Cuban anoles. I think maybe they have taken over so much because their protective coloring is better than the green ones'.

Anole carolinensis, they are such cuties. We have the cuban ones also and last week I found a cuban eating a carolinensis.

Alice, I had heard that they eat our native ones, and never believed it, 'til I saw it with my own eyes. An adult cuban eating a baby green one.
These two were on my deck the other day.


Thought it was interesting how the green started changing color.

I'm lost !!!! Lol ....That's nothing new !!....I have those all over the place and never knew they were called anoles....I just called them lizards....I couldn't relate with the photo !! It's most likely my eyes and my little phone screen..

Jeff! When I read in your earlier post, that you'd never seen an anole before... My first thought was, gee, I wonder how long he's lived in Florida! Yup, they're lizards!

Same here, although I was thinking maybe it was just a case of not recognizing the name. You can't be here a day without seeing one.

When my son was a young boy, "he" kept some Anoles! Guess who learned to catch bugs for them with a quick move of hands and guess who drove once in a snowstorm to the pet shop to get food for them!! But they were kind of cute!

Awww, you are a good mom.