Florida Iguana problem.

[Centercut]

Isn't "Palmetto Bug" just a nice way to say "Giant Cockroach"? We had those in Hawaii also...

 

[mtnGhost]

Isn't "Palmetto Bug" just a nice way to say "Giant Cockroach"? We had those in Hawaii also...

Dude, Giant Cockroaches with Teeth!!! LOL

They're hard to kill too, I remember squishing them and seeing them crawl out of the garbage and hour later like a beat up Terminator from the future :0

 

[TheIceman]

Isn't "Palmetto Bug" just a nice way to say "Giant Cockroach"? We had those in Hawaii also...

Here in North Carolina, we call them either roaches or water-bugs. What's the difference? Well, if they are in your house, you call them water-bugs. If they are in someone else's house, you call them roaches!

James

 

[GiveEmLead]

I guess I just can't fathom an iguana problem in Florida, when they eat the bigger problem that I saw when I lived there long ago: palmetto bugs! LOL

Wait. WHAT? Someone eating palmetto bugs? GTFO. I've lived here all my life and never heard of that.

 

[GoldenStateAIRGUNer]

Are the pretty spooky or can you get close enough for a good springer to do the job ?

 

[markT]

We have Palmetto bugs here upstate SC in my yard and the red shouldered hawks fly down and grab the Palmetto bugs.

iguana eating bugs?

 

[GiveEmLead]

Are the pretty spooky or can you get close enough for a good springer to do the job ?

It varies. The bigger the lizard, the likelier it is to let you get a bit close, ~ 20 yards. I took my first 125 or so on a Benjamin Titan NT springer, no problems at all out to 50 yards. I routinely take them both when I go out to do God's work.

 

[GoldenStateAIRGUNer]

What's the largest you've seen or taken ?

 

[GiveEmLead]

What's the largest you've seen or taken ?

What's the largest you've seen or taken ?

Including the tail, which accounts for about half the length, ~6 ft, maybe thirtyish pounds. Average adults are around 3-4 feet. There's one I've seen across the canal and down the way a bit with my binoculars that is a gym rat on steroids. I'm not shooting that with any airgun. My AR, maybe.

 

[GoldenStateAIRGUNer]

What's the largest you've seen or taken ?

What's the largest you've seen or taken ?

Including the tail, which accounts for about half the length, ~6 ft, maybe thirtyish pounds. Average adults are around 3-4 feet. There's one I've seen across the canal and down the way a bit with my binoculars that is a gym rat on steroids. I'm not shooting that with any airgun. My AR, maybe.

I could see my wife now looking at at a 30lb lizard ! LOL !! PRICELESS! Reptiles continue to grow their entire lifetime. As long as they live...they grow.

 

[GiveEmLead]

 

[GoldenStateAIRGUNer]

That thing looks as menacing as it looks huge !