Brown Anole in Green Bay!

Winter in Wisconsin is about the worst place you can imagine for a tropical lizard, but that didn’t stop this little one! This brown anole (A. sagrei) was spotted last week (April 2021) in a plant nursery in Madison, WI (ok, not exactly Green Bay…) by a friend of mine, Emily Mitchell. Thanks to her for sending the pic! This individual likely got to Wisconsin as an egg in the soil of a potted plant, and hatched in the nursery. It will have a lonely existence in its midwest nursery home, but at least we can appreciate it!