Since you are looking to go down this bug path I am going to give you a bit of insight that I have gained over the years on it. As I have mentioned and as FR and a few others have mentioned there is really nothing wrong with feeding rodents to savannahs. As long as you have a hot enough basking spot and give them good over all temps and humidity and a large enough cage to actually be active you will not have a problem.

that said here you go with the bug lesson,. I also live in fl although I am in north central fl. so things are a bit different for me than in south fl. but I am familiar with some ins and outs on feeding wild caught bugs here. I have also worked with many species of chameleons and and malagasy geckos as well as varanids so I have lots of insight into bugs. Generally speaking most bugs that are toxic usually taste bad and your lizards will spit them out and sometimes exhibit other signs of them not being pleasant to eat but this is not always the case, In general here in Fl. most grasshoppers are fine with one major exception, the southeastern lubber grasshopper which is the very large gaudily (pink, orange,yellow etc.) colored grasshopper that you commonly see here they are black with an orange stripe when they first hop out in the spring time as well. From what I understand most animals dumb enough to try eating them spit them out and act like they ate a green persimmon afterwards but I had a friend who successfully fed a handful to an Outstaletts chameleon that subsequently died shortly after he started this regimen it had been thriving before (much to my horror btw the way since I had been considering trying them). There are very large katydids here which work well for monitors they are the size of small mice and monitors love them. as I am running out of space I will do another post on bugs.

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