I took a pic of these two fellows on my front porch. They're everywhere!
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But they're not green anoles, the crest and the markings around their eyes give that away. But I'm having toruble identifying them... (That happens with anole species, since there are roughly 400 different ones.) Since those do not appear to be Anolis carolinus, the ONLY native species of anole to North America, that means your area has a rather extreme "infestation" of an introduced species.
Sorry to bring up a dead post, but they ARE green anoles. Most young males and all females do not get what I think you are calling a "crest"; I think you are actually referring to their neck flap, which grows with the age and only on males. http://www.hscbemidji.org/images/green%20anole.jpg for reference. Also, these flaps can be completely hidden. Most likely though, the anoles above are females.
Not talking about they dewlaps, I'm talking about the crests on the back of their heads. Compare the picture you just linked to to those two, there's also a dark blotch behind their eyes that isn't generally present in green anoles. They're definitely in the Anolis family, they're just not Anolis carolinis. (carolinus? Figures, one of the few scientific names I can remember well and I'm not sure on its spelling...)
Mmm, perhaps, perhaps. But I have always received them from reputable pet shop dealers that said they were green, and I have seen that breed all over Florida, and hear that they are everywhere else in the South. Could just be another one of those lovely cases of irresponsible pet ownership, where enough got released, then bred. Who knows where it might go, they might be fine, they might not. As far as I know, having kept things that look like that as pets before, they don't get very large and eat the same as Anolis carolinis.
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