Glimpse of Invasive Iguanas

[wgd]

You can look up reproduction but to me you’re looking at this through a narrow lense. Depending on who is presenting there are 6 to 9 m wild hogs in the US spread over 35 plus states. Iguanas area south Florida issue. And yes oral contraceptives are being studied. I didn’t say lay down poison.

• Oral contraceptives currently undergoing laboratory research; (Implementation of an effective contraceptive formula would be most effective if distributed by use of a feed delivery system, strategically located in feral hog habitat for consumption. There is no cost-effective strategy of trapping, sterilizing and releasing feral hogs back into the wild.)

 

[3Crows]

I have no idea how many HOSPs there are but I have only seen one in my yard or nearby my yard in months and it is dead now. I think air gunners could reduce the population of lizards, just one prong of a multi prong program. We are still battling nutria in Louisiana. Total eradication is probably not possible without some sort of selective viral introduction or targeted (pun!) control methods. But then is that not how the zombie movies always get their brain eater's, some sort of engineered virus gone wrong .

Feral hogs are a different issue in that some few "hunters" are spreading them intentionally. They are removed and suddenly they are back. It is a complicated subject. Hogs are wily, reproduce rapidly and are more difficult to hunt that you might think. Imagine if air gunners eliminated iguanas and then went and released some more so they could hunt them. And both hogs and iguanas are edible.

And I hunt hogs down in Oklahoma, hunting hogs is not legal in Kansas, so there are not any or very few feral hogs. Hmmm.

 

[Peashooter]

As i recall over 12 million pigs in Denmark ( not counting cops ) but not a single wild hog here.
It is also the only reason as to why there is a 4-5 feet tall border fence between Denmark and Germany, CUZ they do have wild hogs down there and we do not want them up here endangering the big Danish export of pigs.

There are 3 pest birds here it seem, dowes - seagulls and swallows.
And i will agree it seem like we will have to rename seagulls to towngulls CUZ there are nothing in the costal waters for seagulls the super intensive farming here have taken care of that, or maybe finding food in cities are just more easy.

You absolutely can NOT ! go shooting any of them, you need to be a professional,,,,, meaning you have a 4 day course in using poison, mainly on rats.

 

[JaceSpace1369]

@tibor if you are interested, take a look at this thread.

 

[jkingrph]

How in the world do I convince my wife to let me make a trip to South Florida.....??


Why are iguanas such a huge plague in Florida — but down here in Peru with a huge part of the Amazon jungle — we have NO iguana problem.....


Who's got unused airline miles available to fly me up from Peru?!

Matthias

Probably no natural predators keeping thier numbers down.

 

[coastal drifter]

Hey guys, this is not my video. But I wanted to showcase to y'all just how bad the iguana problen can be when concentrated. This is how it gets in golf courses that are manned and unmanned. We have a little of 1200 golf courses down here and although our problen is mostly localized in South Florida they have made their way up to central Florida.

I personally consider myself lucky that our states allows us to hunt these guys with air rifles. If we couldn't we would be inundated with them. I've personally taken over 9k in the last 4 years. I just started doing removal of them full time last year.

They may not be going anywhere but we do try to make a dent in their population. Usually whatever number of iguanas you see, you need to multiply at by 10 to get an idea of how many there are in the area.

need some music in the background like Kool and the gang, Celebration.

 

[JaceSpace1369]

Probably no natural predators keeping thier numbers down.

Not in numbers that actually make a difference.

 

[coastal drifter]

Not in numbers that actually make a difference.

They have amazing eyesight

 

[JaceSpace1369]

They have amazing eyesight

That they do, I've had situations go from pesting them to hunting/stalking them.

 

[Squirrel hunter]

That looks like a fun shooting gallery.

 

[JaceSpace1369]

That looks like a fun shooting gallery.

It's a shooting gallery for sure.

 

[javelinaStank]

It's a shooting gallery for sure.

I'm jealous of that shooting gallery you have! I'd love to do some airgun pest control but all we really have that might be shootable are groundhogs. Maybe I can find a weekend job at a golf course.

 

[JaceSpace1369]

I'm jealous of that shooting gallery you have! I'd love to do some airgun pest control but all we really have that might be shootable are groundhogs. Maybe I can find a weekend job at a golf course.

I feel like groundhogs are just as bad lol. A lot of places that we work are in golf courses, and that's where a lot of the bulk of iguanas are being removed from. As well as canals and whole communities.

 

[Mr.H]

I'm jealous of that shooting gallery you have! I'd love to do some airgun pest control but all we really have that might be shootable are groundhogs. Maybe I can find a weekend job at a golf course.

Up where I live, we don't have ground squirrels or iguanas on the golf courses. We have Canada geese. I argue they are in the same league as iguanas. You'll know what I mean if you're a golfer and have stepped into geese s**t. Unfortunately, it's illegal to kill geese out of season. But that would be a great part time side gig!

 

[javelinaStank]

I feel like groundhogs are just as bad lol. A lot of places that we work are in golf courses, and that's where a lot of the bulk of iguanas are being removed from. As well as canals and whole communities.

Brain fart. I should've said gophers. We don't have groundhogs in the West... but they're both little furry critters that dig holes in golf courses and elsewhere so you can roll an ankle, close enough I guess. I watch those iguana hunting videos on YouTube, it's a free for all out there. Seen a couple guys deep frying them like turkey, people shooting them in canals, out of trees, everywhere.

Up where I live, we don't have ground squirrels or iguanas on the golf courses. We have Canada geese. I argue they are in the same league as iguanas. You'll know what I mean if you're a golfer and have stepped into geese s**t. Unfortunately, it's illegal to kill geese out of season. But that would be a great part time side gig!

We have those guys too, they poop the size of a small dog except there's always an entire carpet of it. I don't think it's legal to shoot them in most of the areas where they congregate even in season sadly. Nor do I think anyone would want to eat some waterfowl that were feeding at a metro LA lake!