You said..."Well, do we ever think to ask what it was fed the day, or days, before? Had it been fed an insect caught at a light, found on a plant or climbing a wall?"...guess its something that we should think to ask in cases like these, eh??!!



Fire fles...

http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/99/8.19.99/lizards.html

"The Cornell biologists received similar reports of firefly toxicosis in White's tree frogs, which also are native to Australia and were fed fireflies by their owner in Ohio; in a rock lizard that is native to Central Asia and was fed a single firefly on Long Island, N.Y.; and in a chameleon, a native of Africa, that was fed five or six fireflies in Illinois."



http://www.thereptilecenter.com/Goliath-Horn-Worm

"Now if you have a garden full of tomatoes, green peppers, potatoes, eggplant, jimson, or petunias don’t pick the hornworms off your precious plants to feed to your reptile! These plants are very toxic to the reptile, but fine for the worm. If your snake, lizard, etc. eats on hornworms from a garden the worm will be toxic to the reptile. All reptiles require careful feeding for their best health."



Of course, tomato horn worms that have been raised specifically for lizards are okay.

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Does anyone know of any documentation about ladybugs being toxic to chameleons? This is the only article I could find about ladybugs being toxic to lizards...but it isn't specific...

http://www.redorbit.com/education/reference_library/?article_id=905



http://www.buginfo.com/articles/facts_butterflies.cfm

"Poisons in the body of a single Monarch Butterfly are sufficient to kill a small lizard, and cause severe vomiting in a large bird."

"Puss Moth caterpillars contain highly toxic poisons, and crushing a single caterpillar in your hand may cause temporary, but severe, paralysis in the arm."

"Glassy-wings and Heliconians are toxic."



Not toxic but...a warning just the same....

http://lllreptile.com/info/library/animal-care-sheets/chameleons/-/mellers-chameleon/

"It is recommended to remove the barbed hind legs of grasshoppers before offering them to chameleons as these can cause tears in the chameleon’s throat."



Just for "fun"...

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:AIcxOwXpjmsJ:www.bio.usyd.edu.au/Sword/News/assets/Wilson-TREE(2000).pdf lizards AND toxic AND "grasshoppers"&hl=en&gl=ca&ct=clnk&cd=9



That's all for now!

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