{"id":486053,"date":"2026-02-23T17:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/486053\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T17:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:49:07","slug":"americas-most-dangerous-invasive-lizard-lives-in-florida-heres-why-its-a-big-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/486053\/","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s most dangerous invasive lizard lives in Florida. Here\u2019s why it\u2019s a big problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS<\/p>\n<p>Published:\u00a0February 23, 2026 at 8:38 AM<\/p>\n<p>Tags:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/topic\/animals\/\" title=\"View more stories about animals\" gacategory=\"Article Rail\" gaaction=\"Tag Link\" galabel=\"animals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">animals<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/topic\/strange_florida\/\" title=\"View more stories about strange florida\" gacategory=\"Article Rail\" gaaction=\"Tag Link\" galabel=\"strange florida\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">strange florida<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/topic\/lee_county\/\" title=\"View more stories about lee county\" gacategory=\"Article Rail\" gaaction=\"Tag Link\" galabel=\"lee county\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lee county<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/topic\/palm_beach_county\/\" title=\"View more stories about palm beach county\" gacategory=\"Article Rail\" gaaction=\"Tag Link\" galabel=\"palm beach county\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">palm beach county<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/topic\/florida\/\" title=\"View more stories about florida\" gacategory=\"Article Rail\" gaaction=\"Tag Link\" galabel=\"florida\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">florida<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/topic\/orange_county\/\" title=\"View more stories about orange county\" gacategory=\"Article Rail\" gaaction=\"Tag Link\" galabel=\"orange county\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">orange county<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/topic\/seminole_county\/\" title=\"View more stories about seminole county\" gacategory=\"Article Rail\" gaaction=\"Tag Link\" galabel=\"seminole county\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">seminole county<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/topic\/environment\/\" title=\"View more stories about environment\" gacategory=\"Article Rail\" gaaction=\"Tag Link\" galabel=\"environment\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">environment<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/topic\/marion_county\/\" title=\"View more stories about marion county\" gacategory=\"Article Rail\" gaaction=\"Tag Link\" galabel=\"marion county\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">marion county<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/topic\/volusia_county\/\" title=\"View more stories about volusia county\" gacategory=\"Article Rail\" gaaction=\"Tag Link\" galabel=\"volusia county\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">volusia county<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/topic\/flagler_county\/\" title=\"View more stories about flagler county\" gacategory=\"Article Rail\" gaaction=\"Tag Link\" galabel=\"flagler county\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">flagler county<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/topic\/polk_county\/\" title=\"View more stories about polk county\" gacategory=\"Article Rail\" gaaction=\"Tag Link\" galabel=\"polk county\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">polk county<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 lhBXaj jdBbpv\">Florida residents are no strangers to invasive reptiles, from the iguanas that fall out of trees in the winter, to the Burmese Pythons slithering through the Everglades. However, one species has been dubbed by the USGS as the largest, most dangerous invasive lizard in all of Florida \u2014 as well as the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWS Published:\u00a0February 23, 2026 at 8:38 AM Tags:\u00a0animals, strange florida, lee county, palm beach county, florida, orange county,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[1147,192,188451,2808,5182,24236,6011,37652,57711,79,65411,17841,27329,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-486053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-animals","9":"tag-environment","10":"tag-flagler-county","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-lee-county","13":"tag-marion-county","14":"tag-orange-county","15":"tag-palm-beach-county","16":"tag-polk-county","17":"tag-science","18":"tag-seminole-county","19":"tag-strange-florida","20":"tag-volusia-county","21":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}