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    Default Horny Toads Are Back On Sullivan's Island

    I know they were on Isle of Palms cause I caught them there when I was a teenager and we used to hang out on the point. My kids caught them there when they were small too. But after Hugo I never saw them again when I was down there. And trust me, I searched. I also never knew how they got there. But this article (2012) says probably during WWII. Seems they are back too.

    Texas horned lizard re-establishes on Sullivan’s Island
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    I used to have one as a pet and he was a bad mofo. Hell on wheels for a bug. I got him some fruit flies and stored them in my freezer as per instructions. Somehow they got out and multiplied and I had a literal swarm living in the seam of my fridge and freezer. Had to vacuum them all out for weeks.

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    I haven’t seen one in 20 years

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    If they eat fire ants we need to bring in a few tons of them.
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    The kids always have fun finding them on Edisto.

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    This article is dated 2012, so kinda old news. I know Steve Bennett, former state herpetologist and he's been retired for several years, so I checked the date.

    They are cute little buggers.
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    I was sitting in a deer stand in mcclellanville a couple years after Hugo and there was one on the tree. I had never seen one anywhere but on Sullivan’s island. Have not seen another since then.

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    Kinda like fence lizards, didnt see them much growing up but I seem to see more and more of them, this one I caught in Bamberg County.

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    I live on Sullivan's Island and haven't seen one since my youth. I'd like for them to repopulate.

    We don't have a lot of reptiles. Plenty of toads, an occasional corn snake, glass snake, etc. I "heard of" a few released rat snakes and have heard reports of sightings indicating they survived. We're covered up with tree rats so a rat snake could live easily here.

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    That picture isn't a horned toad.

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...032507_kdh.jpg
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    Got em in newberr county

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    Quote Originally Posted by Palmetto Bug View Post
    That picture isn't a horned toad.
    No shit

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    Whatever ccleroy is holding

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    Quote Originally Posted by ccleroy View Post
    Kinda like fence lizards, didnt see them much growing up but I seem to see more and more of them, this one I caught in Bamberg County.

    We have a few of those at our river house, and I've saw a couple around my house last summer. I hadn't seen any since I was a kid.
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    They like my block wall...
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    I used to catch those Eastern Fence lizards all the time as kid, not as much as anoles.. but they weren't rare. I don't know if if they are rarer now, but it could be that I don't spend as much time outside trying to catch critters as I used to.

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    Skinks, I still see an as of skinks and anoles.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Highstrung View Post
    Skinks, I still see an as of skinks and anoles.
    You shouldn’t talk a lot Glenn and Tater like that.

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    I won the animal race at the old Camp Barstow, I caught a skink and entered the damn thing. Some troop, can't remember where they're from, caught a box turtle and entered it. A turtle.. they had to be pretty bad at nature. It's been 30 years it still bothers me that anyone would have entered a turtle.

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    Well, there was this one race were a turtle beat a rabbit.
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