Friday, July 17, 2020

Twitter Thread: Devious Alligator Lizard Creates Havoc In Garden


This fun Twitter thread takes a look at a scoundrel of an alligator lizard creating pure havoc in a couple's garden. Graham is all about the cold ones. Can't blame him. 

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Soil - Jessica Ellis O @baddestmamajama So. We had a massive infestation of pill bugs who ate our zucchini twice. So we put out beer traps (they go to drink the beer, they fall in.) Then a mystery occurred.. 8:32 PM - Apr 25, 2020 - Twitter for iPhone lessica Ellis Replying to @baddestmamajama We put the traps in our veggie bed, dug into the soil. They were in fact catching a ZILLION pill bugs. Literally FULL TO THE BRIM by morning. @baddestmamajama · 20h And then the traps started to. Move. 2 1

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Soil - Jessica Ellis O @baddestmamajama - 20h Alright. So something was happening to the cups. They were disappearing. But to where? 23 74 2K Jessica Ellis O @baddestmamajama - 20h Well, it had been extremely windy the night before, and blowing East. Debris all over the yard. Maybe just the wind blew it into the blueberry bush, knocking out all the bugs and beer?? 27 62 2K Jessica Ellis O @baddestmamajama - 20h .but it wasn't windy last night. And yet. 13 61 O 2K

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Text - Jessica Ellis O @baddestmamajama · 20h Something. .something. Is carefully removing all of the bugs, all of the beer, and burying the cups amongst my prized blueberries. And We have a suspect. 6 27 63 2.1K Jessica Ellis O @baddestmamajama · 20h Now you never know who is using your garden when you leave it. In the house I grew up in, which backed a creek, we had a myriad of nocturnal visitors, from a river otter and opossums by the dozen to an unfortunate snake whose HEAD we found on the d

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Text - Jessica Ellis O @baddestmamajama · 20h We found out..we weren't alone 0:26 319K views O 119 27 302 8.8K

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Lizard - Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama This Snakey looking fellow is an alligator lizard, who seems to be living in our tomatoes. And apparently, every night this week, has been feasting on drunken pill bugs, washing it down with Coors, and dragging the cups into the blueberries for dessert. 8:54 PM · Apr 25, 2020 · Twitter for iPhone

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Text - Jessica Ellis Replying to @baddestmamajama I don't know if Pilsner is good for Graham (we've named him Graham) so I believe the feasts will come to an end, but it just goes to show you never know who will show up when you put out beer. O @baddestmamajama · 20h And also we got a drunk lizard to deal with. 126 27 293 10.6K

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