This just crawled out of a houseplant I purchased last weekend. Can anyone help me identify it? I also need to know what to feed it because it probably hasn't eaten in a long time. It's about 4 inches long. The vendor's store is in Ottawa, Ontario, but they say their tropical plants are grown in greenhouses in Canada and the US.
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To me it looks a bit like a brown anole which comes from Cuba– Fo.Feb 25, 2020 at 15:16
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1...a Florida female brown anole according to an image on Wikipedia. Apparently, you need to provide crickets, moths, ants, grasshoppers, cockroaches, mealworms, spiders, and waxworms.– Weather VaneFeb 25, 2020 at 16:07
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Poor little girl from Florida ended up in Canada for the winter instead of the other way around! Thank you for identifying the specifics @WeatherVane! If you want to make a formal answer I'm happy to accept it because the photo of the Florida female is clearly right.– Fo.Feb 25, 2020 at 16:27
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The OP supposed the species to be brown anole, which I followed up with a visit to Wikipedia and found a very similar image, with the caption
Florida female
image from Wikipedia
The article also identifies their diet.
answered Feb 25, 2020 at 17:05
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6Thank you. Though she'll be raised Canadian I'll make sure she knows where she came from :D– Fo.Feb 25, 2020 at 17:45