hadn't seen these for many years, but the colony had been written about in the Houston Chronicle
probably forming from bought specimens or possibly from ship channel stowaways, this colony has flourished over the past 50 years or so
their range is well beyond our neighboring Houston encased town
this may be the sharpest photograph ever took of one
caught him in the corner of my eye & had the big lens mounted on my APS-C camera ...the equivalent of a 750 mm on FF
APC do have some advantages