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This is the lovely Honeysuckle, shes one fine looking lady :0) shes gravid and due to lay anytime and make her handsome hubby "Cockleburr" ... a dad)

Honeysuckle * female orange headed desert spiny

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Eve
Suncharmers Colorful Collareds & More

Nice specimen. I also enjoyed your site.
Loved the great looking collard lizards.

The mite section was great. I have never had mites and took it for granted .

Did you house your male and female together all yr long?

Thanks

Hi, thank you for the nice comments :0) appreciate it glad you enjoyed my critters.

Yes I keep them together all year round. They were brumated for about 6 weeks with my other lizards and the male has not stopped head bobbin and dancin around her since. Shes about ready to lay, definitely should be fertile as I have walked into the rep room several times and seen them mating.

** Not sure if they are just really INTO it or what, lol. Heres the male

Cockleburr male desert spiny

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Eve
Suncharmers Colorful Collareds & More

Thank you very much for the info. I plan to house a pair of emerald swifts together all yr long but was not sure if possible.

I am debating whether outside all yr long (S.Florida) or indoors.

Yes loved your site as amazing stock you have but particularly loved this part as found it very informative more so than some books-

http://suncharmers.com/FAQ.html

Eve, I read your section on mites. Bought a beautiful female Sceloporus o. occidentalis last March...Daisy. Quarantine consisted of doses of Albon, (coccidia), and Panacur, (pinworms). She was also LOADED with mites, (all Sceloporus seem to be a mite's lunchbox). Learned a very sorry lesson. In the past, I used rubbing alcohol on a Q-tip quickly followed with cool water to kill the mites. It worked, but I was worried about any toxic effects of the alcohol. I went to Vaseline to smother the little (you fill in the word; I can't think of a nice one at this point), and dotted her body wherever I saw them. About a month ago, I saw what looked like a sore on her belly. I picked at it a little with a fingernail, (thought she'd had a splinter), and before I knew it, the skin had turned black and scaly around it. Took her to the vet...not knowing what this was, he gave me Baytril. More little abscesses popped up here and there, and I let them alone figuring that the Baytril would work. Closer inspection showed that there was an actual little hole into the skin at each abscess. Apparently, the mites burrowed into her, and her internal organs then became their lunchbox. Now this lizard showed no signs of apparent bad health. Studies show that Sceloporus are pretty tolerant of heavy mite loads, but still we do like to eradicate them. Daisy was eating well, was active, and interacted with my husband and me on a daily basis. She unexpectedly died yesterday. My husband was home at the time, called me at work, and said she had appeared a bit limp. When he picked her up, she kicked a few times, and died. I got home, and found that the inside of her mouth was filled with blood. From the gular area outward. The mites probably got to an internal organ, (stomach?, lungs?), and caused a massive internal hemmorhage. So...oil or alcohol...what do you think?