Fireside, may I suggest you also look Wendy Hodges up on the internet and send her an e-mail with respect to this, as she may have some insigt as well. Your conclusion, whether based on a vaible theory or not-is where I go also, I don't discount anyones choices of food stuffs for their horned lizards, I just know that ever since I was a child in Camp Pendelton California I was raised around horned lizards and as I got older many times spent time obsevrving them on firebrakes eating large red ant, I new from an early age that ants made up a large portion of their scat. When I got older and got out of snakes and back into lizards, I caught a few males and females from Palmdale area and both me and my son worked together to breed these, and we staked out our ant piles in our city and often used a potatoe spoon to collect ants with. Yes I did occasionally feed them crickets and other faire from time to time, including moths, and spiders, we had an outside enclosure and kept these for 4 years back in the 70's which many lizard people were not doing and kept them very sucessfully, and this is also where we observed them eating various vegetations such as, green or red leaf lettuce, sweet alysum flowers, and rose pedals cut up real small. Also dandelion leaves. The adults just grab the leaves and tear off a piece and eat it. I used to feed my babies very finely chopped up vegetable material of the above mentioned and they would eat them as well. I have tried to get Lester or someon else to corroberate my observations but had yet to have anyone substantiate this, but this was a normal part of our offering to our horned lizards. Anyway interesting theroy, I think Wendy has done a lot of this tyoe of work as well and may have an insight. Just thought I'd share........
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