I'm a class III collector here in Sarasota, Fl, been collecting rats and kings for 20 years, but we just had a week of freezes at night (first time here in 37 years)and the day after I collected 150 anoles while out scarlet king hunting and placed them in a 20 gal. glass aquarium and put a heat lamp on 'em, the next day 20 were alive, I have since fed 'em all off and need more for my collection but I cant find a single anole now anywhere, even out on the berrier islands where the low temps are higher than were at my house three miles inland, but anyway I'm finding the snakes are starving, I'm finding baby reds (corns) thinner than pencils, I'm thinking their all doomed, I'm going to call it a "Massive Dieoff" anloes and snakes, I did see one green anole (native)today, he was nestled up right next to a brown anole's (invasive) clean skeleton under some tree bark. some folks here like to chew me out for collecting Scarlet kings and Im always offering in my defence contenders such as ants, dogs, roads, and forest fires, but now massive numbers are lost and regretfully only a few people breed them, I hope those of you whom do have my kings are sucsessful with them because this will likely take years to recover. I never thought I would need lizards! This is Devastating!... JB

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