As summer ends, a new season approaches, Iguana mating season! During the summer, if you took it upon yourself to implement iguana control around your property, mating iguanas will be kept to a minimum. But if iguanas were roaming freely throughout your property during the summer with no iguana prevention, you will most likely have iguanas mating in the upcoming weeks. Mating usually occurs during the months of October through December and you should stop iguanas mating now.
This time of year is ideal for iguanas to mate as they know the dry season is approaching, which is suitable to lay their eggs. Many homeowners may say that having a couple of iguanas around doesn’t really affect them, but what they don’t know is female iguanas can lay up to 70 eggs a year. Not only does this cause infestations, but it can also lead to property damage, health risks and bodily harm! Not all hope is loss! By incorporating iguana removal during the upcoming mating months can make all the difference to stop a potential iguana infestation.
Iguanas Mating In South Florida
The iguana activity this summer was extremely busy and many property and business owners can attest to this. From damaging vegetable gardens to digging burrows under roads and sidewalks, invasive iguana did a number in South Florida. As the breeding season approaches, you will notice iguanas behaving differently as they will try to call the attention of females. Male iguanas will display territorial behaviors and will even engage in battles with other male iguanas. Battling other males will include biting, wrestling and tail whipping. This becomes problematic, especially when it happens on trees! While they claim dominance, these large iguanas will engage in combat and can ultimately fall from these trees, which can lead to bodily harm and property damage. We recommend iguanas proofing trees with iguana clear wrap deterrents to keep them off of your trees. Alpha male iguanas will also display actions such as head bobbing, which also causes their dewlap to extend, which attracts females. Changing to a bright orange color is another method these adult iguanas display to catch the attention of their potential mate. For males, mating can happen multiple times with various female iguanas, which can lead to further infestations. During the mating season, it is crucial to implement Iguana pest control to stop female iguanas from breeding in the upcoming months.
Modifying plants To Deter Iguanas
Iguanas will continue eating available food sources around your home for energy. It’s important to monitor what areas are being affected to block off or change plants to keep iguanas away. By modifying your plants or installing barriers, it can help keep them away.
Once you block or eliminate food sources, iguanas will be repelled which will help stop iguanas mating around your property. Installing plants that deter iguanas is also a good approach, we recommend testing the plant where iguanas are active to avoid costly changes in your flower beds and gardens. As we have seen in our years in business, iguanas learn to adapt which means they will eat what’s available. For example, green island ficus was a plant that iguanas would not consume but that has changed! Plants such as society garlic, agave and cardboard palms are just some of the variety of plants that iguanas do not eat. As mentioned earlier, wrapping flower beds, pots & trees with iguana deterrent wrap will keep them away from certain plants such as orchids. Installing smooth barriers is another method since the surface is slippery, iguanas can’t climb. But it’s always best to include iguana trapping services to avoid iguanas from mating around other parts of your home or business.
Community Iguana Control
If your property has iguanas, it’s possible that your neighbor also has iguanas. When neighbors in communities get together to implement Iguana Control, it yields the best results. These scaly invaders travel from property to property to locate specific food and water sources. While iguanas travel to different properties, they can spread pests such as ticks and mites. Therefore, it is crucial to have your property treated by a pest control company to eliminate these threats. Community Iguana Control is also very important for associations because iguanas can multiply quickly in common areas. That’s why it is imperative to stop Iguanas mating on your property and your community areas. Staying in close contact with the landscape company that maintains the grass in the association can lead to more successful iguana removals. Lawn service crews are constantly cleaning up gardens and flowerbeds, so they have a good idea where iguana activity is most prevalent. When we implement removal services, we try to get as many neighbors as possible to join the service to achieve the best results.
Monitoring Iguana Behavior
If you hired an Iguana pest control company during the summer and are seeing new iguanas, it’s important to monitor their behavior. Typically, iguanas will cross through the same path daily to reach their food and water sources. Once we locate their entry point, we can place traps in those areas which will lead to a successful removal.
Monitoring these areas can also help determine what spots are being used by iguanas to access your property. For example, if iguanas are using a certain tree or bush from your neighbors to climb onto your property, we will advise you to cut that area back to keep Iguanas away. This goes for resorts as well! Many staff members are usually walking the resort grounds and run into iguanas. By documenting those areas, iguana control technicians can concentrate their efforts on achieving successful removal during the service term.
Stopping Iguanas Mating
When South Florida businesses and residents contact us to provide iguana control, we strategize the most effective plan that will show the best results. Because of every iguana problem being different, we constantly come up with innovative methods to capture and eliminate iguanas humanely. Whether it’s trapping or nighttime iguana removal, our trained iguana removal experts know how to get the job done properly. Not only do we help residents, hotels and resorts, we also assist schools! Keeping staff and kids safe is extremely important to us due to the possibility of health risks and bodily harm. Because of our innovative services, Humane Iguana Control has been recognized by local and national news stations for our efforts to eliminate invasive iguanas while saving our native species and our ecosystem.
