The Teeny Tiny Anole Comes to Visit

[Solly Mack]

We have eight baby anoles living in the daisy box out front. It's a large area made from cinder blocks placed in the shape of a square and filled with soil. The center square holds Gerbera daisies and the outside slots hold Impatiens in varying colors. You can paint the blocks in any color you want and it's a relatively cheap way to create a border garden.

Female anoles deposit their eggs in moist soil. My cinder garden proved a fortunate spot. Now I can sit out front and watch tiny anoles scurry about, eating bugs and filling me with squee.

This little fellow dropped onto my husband's head and traveled with him into the house.

I was bringing my husband a cup of coffee as he sat down at the table in the kitchen. I noticed the tiny anole just as it jumped to my husband's arm.

My husband looked down at the anole and calmly asked if I had dropped a lizard on him. (Yes, it is something I would do - and could do without harming the lizard) We both love animals.

We relocated the baby to the back yard. My husband sat on the ground near the watering hole until the baby finally had the courage to jump on the Bee Balm plant. The watering hole offers great camouflage, with various plants, as well as water - both the plants and water attract food for the anole. He'll have less competition as his siblings are still finding their own way in the front.

Before he jumped though, he crawled all over my husband, and even went back to hide in his hair.

Watching me from his happy place on the arm of my hubby. He's not much bigger than the arm hair.







Crawling around the back, shoulders, and neck.









His new home




Thank you!

Solly Mack

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Omigod, my dear Solly Mack!

What a beautiful bunch of photos!

The anole is absolutely adorable.

Your photos are amazing in their detail and color.

Thank you for sharing this very tiny miracle.

[Solly Mack]

2. Hi, CaliforniaPeggy! Thanks!

I wish you could see all of them when they are out and about. They are all so tiny! They were not much bigger than a fingernail when I first spotted them sunning themselves on the leaves of my daisies.

[Curmudgeoness]

3. Beautiful photos.

The tiny size really is evident in the photo of the drawstring. Wish I could do such great work.

[Solly Mack]

4. Thanks, Curmudgeoness!

They are very tiny when they first emerge out in the open. I worry about stepping on them so I am forever looking down when I walk. I have a lot of bruises.

[Fla Dem]

5. Great pics. Very cute. I am forever rescuing them from my lanai.

Somehow they get in and if I don't get them before my cat gets out there, they don't have a chance. Rescued one tonight that wasn't any bigger than my thumbnail. Lots of babies out there right now. Didn't know they were called Anoles. Just called them lizards.

[Solly Mack]

6. My dogs usually bark at them. I think they're afraid of them.

I often keep old flower pots stacked in a corner of the deck so they can live there. Right now I have a toad homesteading in the lizard pots.

You're lucky to have so many! They're fun to watch.

[PasadenaTrudy]

7. Cute!

Anoles were my first childhood pets.

[Solly Mack]

8. Cool! I would have enjoyed that.

[cate94]

9. Love these photos!

Thank you!

[Solly Mack]

10. Welcome! I'm glad. Thank you, cate94! :)

[niyad]

11. thank you, solly mack. amazing pics of this beautiful little creature.

[Solly Mack]

12. You're welcome, niyad! I love it that I have baby anoles around this year.

I usually don't see them until they are much larger.

[niyad]

13. when I see such wonders, I feel like nature is giving me a little gift, just because.. .

[mnhtnbb]

14. Great shots!

[Solly Mack]

15. Hey! Thanks!

I told my husband to go back out and bring something else home.

[mnhtnbb]

18. You are too funny!

Hope you specified no spiders, snakes, ticks, scorpions...

[raven mad]

16. I love these little guys! (Florida born, here.)

While visiting, we gave one a ride on the motorcycle. Between the dash and windscreen. He kinda liked it!

[Solly Mack]

19. Me, too. I bet that was a sight to see!

[Rhiannon12866]

17. What amazing photos - you can see their expressions! And a lovely story!

They are the cutest tiny things! Have any of them tried to sell you insurance??

[Solly Mack]

20. No yet, but I keep hoping. :)

Thank you, Rhiannon12866!

[drmeow]

21. I want a heart button like on FB eom

[Solly Mack]

22. :) Thanks, drmeow

[Mira]

23. ONLY YOU

could bring us such an uplifting gift.
Really beautiful photos.
Thank you!

[Solly Mack]

24. I was thrilled to see one so small so close. I see tiny geckos all the time but rarely do

I get to see baby anoles. I have been lucky this year!

He was sunning himself in my fairy garden today, hiding near the fairy door I painted on a rock. He seems to be enjoying his new home.

I had to share what happened with you all. That baby lizard sitting on my eejit's head was pure bliss.

[alfredo]

25. Cute critter. Do they get into your house often?

[Solly Mack]

26. All the time. Anoles and Geckos.

[alfredo]

27. Keeps the bug population down a bit.

[Solly Mack]

28. Surprisingly no. But this is Louisiana, land of bugs and more bugs.

[CrispyQ]

29. What sweet looking little creatures!

The last one is fab - the little guy in the greens.

[Solly Mack]

31. Thank you, CrispyQ

I think they're adorable. I was watching one eat flies today. He was hanging out on the recycling bin.

[a la izquierda]

30. Ooh, lucky ducks!

Great photos.

[Solly Mack]

32. Thanks, a la izquierda

[Mz Pip]

33. So cute!

I love the last shot.

[Solly Mack]

34. Thanks, Mz Pip! Hope you are doing well!

I'm rather fond of lizards, as everyone knows. If they could talk in a language I understood, I'd never leave their side.