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Was checking on my plants yesterday and noticed this peculiarity.

First time I've personally seen something so large get stuck in a trap. Luckily for the trap(and unluckily for the lizard) it just got it's feet stuck which means the trap should survive.

While I assume this was mostly due to the lizard panicking and wearing itself out, I'm still impressed that the trap was strong enough to hold on. It's a Maroon Monster by the way, really puts the "Monster" in that title.

Did you save him?

happiness wrote:Did you save him?

I probably should have made it more clear in the original post that he was already dead.

Rest assured though that I would have definitely saved him had he been alive. I like reptiles and it would have been a waste to leave him since the trap wouldn't digest it.

Are you sure that the plant wasn't just evolving into some lizard-like form?

Better let him go. His T-Rex mama might come looking for him!

Haha, nice catch .

Wow, nice! Mine has caught small grasshoppers.

parker679 wrote:

happiness wrote:Did you save him?

I probably should have made it more clear in the original post that he was already dead.

Rest assured though that I would have definitely saved him had he been alive. I like reptiles and it would have been a waste to leave him since the trap wouldn't digest it.

Awee. That's too bad! Still incredible to see what these things can catch! It's like how the pray mantis will catch and eat a humming bird, crazy.

Do you know what kind of Lizard that is?

I grew up in NW FL not far from Destin and have never seen one patterned like that.

We had about a million Anoles around the house,but nothing like that.

It's a cuban anole, sometime called a brown anole.

I grew up in Miami where they were everywhere, they're a highly invasive import from the Caribbean. Rarely would I see the native green anole.

When I moved to Tallahassee several years ago it was the opposite, green anoles were everywhere and I would only occasionally see brown ones. I've noticed more and more though that the population of brown anoles up here seems to be increasing.

On the plus side, the green anoles like hanging out in my sarracenia pots and my D. trayci pots since they provide the perfect camouflage.

I've heard of those but never seen one.

I hope the Green ones don't disappear,I would really miss those little guys.