Peters's Rock Agamas thrive in urban Treasure Coast walls

July 11, 2026Eastern Florida Flatwoods

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have recorded more than 25 sightings across the local area this summer, establishing themselves on walls and rocky outcrops throughout the urban landscape. These introduced lizards are no longer a novelty — they are now a fixture of the local reptile community, sharing the same sun-soaked surfaces with , , , and .

Florida hosts more non-native reptile species than anywhere else on Earth, and the Treasure Coast demonstrates how that assemblage quietly takes shape: not in preserves or designated sites, but in the urban margins — on residential walls, under eaves, in the gaps between managed landscapes. These reptiles do not announce their presence; they simply arrive, persist, and eventually become part of the baseline fauna that residents assume has always been there.

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