Expert iguana removal in West Palm Beach and surrounding areas. Licensed wildlife specialist offering same-day service for residential and commercial properties. Serving downtown, waterfront properties, and golf communities.
West Palm Beach is the largest city in Palm Beach County and the most varied iguana environment we work in. Within the city limits you have downtown high-rise condos along Flagler Drive sitting directly on Lake Worth Lagoon, century-old single-family homes with mature canopy in El Cid and Old Northwood, brand-new construction in the South End, sprawling golf communities like Ibis and Bear Lakes in the northwest, and the freshwater Grassy Waters Preserve forming a natural iguana reservoir on the city's edge. Each of those environments produces a different iguana problem — and the right response on a Flagler Drive penthouse balcony is not the right response on a 1925 bungalow in Flamingo Park.
The single biggest geographic factor is the Lake Worth Lagoon. The lagoon is brackish, tidal, and continuously connected from the Lake Worth Inlet down through Boynton, with mature mangrove pockets, a near-continuous seawall on both shores, and a constant procession of moored boats that double as basking platforms. Iguanas swim freely between West Palm Beach and Palm Beach Island via the lagoon and the three bridge corridors (Royal Park, Flagler Memorial, and Southern Boulevard), which means iguana pressure on the WPB waterfront is constantly being refilled from the east — there is no version of this problem where the lagoon "runs dry."
The second factor is the city's age. Unlike newer Florida cities built in the last 30 years, much of West Palm Beach was developed between 1900 and 1950, and the historic districts of El Cid, Flamingo Park, Grandview Heights, Prospect Park, Old Northwood, and the South End contain mature ficus, gumbo limbo, royal poinciana, mango, and avocado canopy that is very nearly ideal iguana habitat. Add the older housing stock — raised foundations with crawl spaces, detached garages, hedged garden walls, mature ornamental beds — and these neighborhoods present iguanas with both food and shelter that newer developments simply don't offer. Read more about what iguanas eat and iguana habitat in South Florida for why these conditions matter.
The third factor is the city's freshwater system. Clear Lake (north of downtown, adjacent to Palm Beach International Airport), Lake Mangonia, Bear Lake, and the chain of lakes inside Palm Beach Lakes and the western golf communities are all interconnected and feed into the M Canal and C-51 Canal. The C-51 in particular runs the full width of the city east-to-west and is one of the most heavily iguana-populated waterways in Palm Beach County. Combined with the Grassy Waters Preserve to the northwest — a 23-square-mile freshwater wetland that produces iguanas faster than the surrounding neighborhoods can absorb them — West Palm Beach has more iguana corridors than any other city we serve.
What this means for property owners: iguana pressure in West Palm Beach is not seasonal and not localized. Whether you're in a historic Flamingo Park bungalow, a Flagler Drive condo, a CityPlace area townhome, an El Cid waterfront estate, or an Ibis Golf and Country Club home in the northwest, you will see iguanas on your property. The variables are how often, how many, and how quickly the population on your specific lot rebuilds after removal. That's the question we exist to answer.
West Palm Beach's historic neighborhoods — Flamingo Park, El Cid, Grandview Heights, Old Northwood, Prospect Park, and the South End — are some of the most iguana-pressured residential areas in the county, and the work we do in them looks different from a standard suburban removal.
The first reason is the canopy. These neighborhoods were planted between 80 and 100 years ago with ficus, royal poinciana, gumbo limbo, mango, avocado, sea grape, and mature schefflera. The result today is a closed tree canopy 30-50 feet overhead, perfect for adult iguanas to bask, sleep, and travel between properties without ever touching the ground. Removing the visible iguana on the seawall does not solve the problem if there are five more in the canopy of the neighbor's mango tree.
The second reason is the architecture. Mediterranean Revival, Mission, and Bungalow-style homes from the 1920s and 1930s typically have raised foundations, accessible crawl spaces, detached garages, side-yard hedge walls, and ornamental beds running tight against the foundation. Each of those features is an iguana refuge. We've found nest cavities under detached garage slabs in Flamingo Park, juveniles living inside the lower courses of crumbling stucco walls in El Cid, and adult males using the lattice under raised porches in Old Northwood as year-round dens.
The third reason is the seawalls. El Cid, Old Northwood, and the South End all have direct frontage on Lake Worth Lagoon, with seawalls that in many cases are themselves 60 to 80 years old. Iguana burrowing into the soil behind these older walls is a slow-motion structural problem, and the cost of a major historic-district seawall reconstruction is substantially higher than a modern replacement because the work has to be done in a way that preserves district character.
We work in these neighborhoods carefully — discreet vehicles, no signage on residential streets, methods that don't disturb mature plantings, and clear written reports for the property owner. Reducing the conditions that attract iguanas is also part of a long-term strategy; see our iguana prevention methods guide for practical steps homeowners can take, and our overview of how iguanas damage roads, seawalls, and canal banks for what's at stake on the historic seawalls.
The downtown West Palm Beach waterfront — the Flagler Drive corridor between Banyan Boulevard and Okeechobee Boulevard, plus the immediate surrounding blocks — is one of the highest-density iguana zones in the entire city. Continuous seawall along the lagoon, mature flowering plantings in the median and the public parks, restaurant patio dining on Clematis Street, and hundreds of high-rise condo units with planted balconies all converge into a single iguana-friendly habitat.
The result is something new West Palm residents are often surprised by: iguanas on the 12th-floor condo balcony, iguanas on the railings of restaurant rooftop patios, iguanas in the planters along the Lake Trail, iguanas swimming next to the moored boats at the City Docks. None of this is unusual. Adult iguanas are excellent climbers and routinely scale exterior walls, balcony supports, and even the smooth columns of high-rise buildings to reach planted balconies and rooftop terraces. Once they're in a planter, they have everything they need: water from the irrigation, food from ornamental plantings, and a defended territory that they will return to every day.
Our downtown Flagler Drive program is structured for this environment. We coordinate with building management at condo and hotel addresses to time visits during low-traffic windows. We carry the equipment to safely reach balcony and rooftop iguanas without leaving any visible footprint in front of residents or guests. We provide written documentation for board meetings, HOA reserves, and hospitality property reports. And we run the same Lake Worth Lagoon seawall inspection on every waterfront property — see how iguanas damage roads, seawalls, and canal banks for why this matters.
For property owners on the Flagler Drive corridor, El Cid, Northwood Shores, and the South End waterfront: the iguana count on your seawall is not going to drop on its own. Lake Worth Lagoon refills the population continuously, and the only sustainable response is a recurring program that keeps pressure on the resident animals while the next wave is arriving.
After running thousands of jobs across West Palm Beach, certain areas of the city consistently produce more iguana activity than others. Knowing where the pressure is highest helps property owners and HOA boards prioritize where to act first.
The Flagler Drive corridor and downtown waterfront. The continuous seawall along Flagler Drive between Banyan Boulevard and Okeechobee Boulevard, plus the immediate condo and hotel addresses on the west side of the street, sit on the warmest, most iguana-friendly section of Lake Worth Lagoon. Resident adult iguanas are common here year-round, and the post-storm spike is especially pronounced.
El Cid and the South End waterfront. The El Cid Historic District (between Flagler and Olive Avenue, south of Belvedere Road) and the South End / SoSo neighborhoods south of Southern Boulevard share a similar pattern: continuous seawall on the lagoon, mature canopy in the yards, and a high rate of iguana traffic moving back and forth from Palm Beach Island via the Southern Boulevard Bridge.
Old Northwood and Northwood Shores. North of downtown, these historic neighborhoods sit on Lake Mangonia and Lake Worth Lagoon, with mature ficus and gumbo limbo canopy and older seawalls that show the same burrowing-undermining pattern as El Cid. Calls from this corridor are steady year-round.
Clear Lake and the Currie Park / airport edge. The shoreline of Clear Lake and the Currie Park area produce a separate population that doesn't mix much with the downtown corridor. This is also one of the higher-density nesting areas in the city during the spring window.
Palm Beach Lakes and the chain-of-lakes corridor. The interconnected freshwater lake system through Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard, Bear Lake, and the western golf communities (Ibis, Bear Lakes, Breakers West, Mayacoo Lakes) is a major iguana corridor. Properties backing onto these lakes see steady year-round activity.
The Grassy Waters Preserve edge. The 23-square-mile freshwater wetland on the city's northwest edge produces more iguanas than the surrounding neighborhoods can absorb. Properties along Northlake Boulevard, the perimeter of the preserve, and the new construction in the western expansion areas see a steady inflow of iguanas dispersing out of the wetland.
The C-51 Canal corridor. The C-51 runs east-west across the entire south end of the city, connecting the western lake system to the Intracoastal at the Southern Boulevard Bridge. It is one of the highest-iguana-density waterways in Palm Beach County. See our overview of iguanas and canal systems for why these corridors function as iguana highways.
If you own waterfront property in West Palm Beach, the most important thing to understand about iguana pressure on your seawall is the Lake Worth Lagoon — what it is, why iguanas love it, and why removal alone never finishes the job.
Lake Worth Lagoon is a brackish, tidal estuary roughly 20 miles long, connected to the Atlantic at the Lake Worth Inlet to the north and the South Lake Worth Inlet at Boynton. It is sheltered by Palm Beach Island and the barrier islands to the south, ringed by seawalls on both the east and west shores, and contains mature mangrove pockets, public parks with planted edges, dozens of marinas, and a continuous procession of moored boats. From an iguana's perspective, this is an almost perfect environment: warm water year-round, abundant basking surfaces, easy swimming routes between properties, ornamental planting on every shoreline, and minimal predator pressure once they reach adult size.
The implication for West Palm Beach waterfront owners is that the iguana population on your seawall is not a closed system. Removing every iguana from your property today does not produce an iguana-free property tomorrow. Within days, new iguanas swim in from the next dock, the next condo, the next public park, the moored boats offshore, and Palm Beach Island via the bridges. This is not a failure of the trapping work — it is the nature of waterfront ownership on a continuously connected estuary.
What this means in practice: the right response on Lake Worth Lagoon waterfront is recurring service, not one-off removal. A monthly maintenance program holds the resident iguana count near zero, catches new arrivals before they establish, identifies and excavates seawall burrows before they become structural, and removes nests during the spring nesting window before they hatch. The math works out dramatically better than waiting for problems to compound and then hiring emergency removal — both because populations don't get the chance to rebuild and because seawall and landscape damage is caught and stopped before the repair bills become structural.
If you're on Flagler Drive, El Cid, Northwood Shores, the South End waterfront, or any of the lagoon-front condo addresses: the question is not whether iguanas will keep arriving, but how you want to manage the steady inflow.
Downtown West Palm Beach has a concentration of hotels, restaurants, and hospitality properties that is unusual for a city its size — and iguana management in these settings is fundamentally different from residential work. We've structured a program specifically for downtown WPB hospitality.
The core requirement is invisibility. A guest at a Flagler Drive hotel does not want to walk past a wildlife trap on the way to breakfast. A Clematis Street restaurant patron does not want to see a removal in progress next to their table. A Rosemary Square retail tenant does not want a service vehicle with iguana branding parked in front of their store at noon. We schedule hospitality visits during early-morning or late-evening windows, our vehicles and uniforms are unobtrusive, and we work in coordination with property management so that other staff and contractors are not surprised by our presence.
The second requirement is speed. A live iguana in a hotel pool deck or on a restaurant patio is an immediate guest-experience problem, and the response window has to be measured in hours, not days. Our central Palm Beach County location lets us respond to downtown WPB hospitality calls same-day, typically within a few hours of the call.
The third requirement is documentation. Hospitality and commercial properties typically need written records for management reporting, insurance, health-department compliance, and brand-standard audits. Our reports include time and date, property location, iguana count and disposition, observed property conditions, and recommended next actions, formatted in a way that fits the property management firm's existing reporting workflows.
We've worked with downtown WPB hotels, Clematis Street and Rosemary Square restaurants, Convention Center grounds, marinas along the Flagler Drive waterfront, and retail along Okeechobee Boulevard and Dixie Highway. Whether you're a single restaurant with an iguana on the patio once a quarter or a multi-property hospitality group with continuous low-grade iguana pressure across all of your downtown locations, we can structure service to fit. Commercial pricing is quoted by property based on footprint, frontage, and reporting requirements.
A large share of West Palm Beach housing sits inside some form of governed community — high-rise condos along Flagler Drive and Olive Avenue, gated golf communities like Ibis and Bear Lakes in the northwest, townhome and patio-home developments through Palm Beach Lakes, and the historic-district neighborhood associations in Flamingo Park and El Cid. Each of those structures handles iguana work differently, and the program that fits a 240-unit Flagler high-rise is not the program that fits an Ibis homeowners' association covering 750 single-family lots.
What's common across all of them is the perimeter problem. A WPB community shares lake frontage, shared landscape, shared roads, and in many cases shared seawall, which means single-unit-at-a-time iguana removal is an exercise in chasing the same animals back and forth across property lines. The only program structure that holds up over time is one that treats the community as a single perimeter — coordinated visits, shared scheduling with property management, written board reporting, and a defined nesting-season layer in spring. That requires a vendor structure that pest-control franchises with single-unit ticketing systems aren't really built around.
For high-rise condo buildings on Flagler Drive and Northwood Shores, the program structure is different again. The iguanas are not on the ground — they are on planted balconies, rooftop terraces, the pool deck, the seawall, and sometimes the building exterior itself. We coordinate with property management to schedule access to common areas, develop a unit-by-unit balcony inspection plan if requested, and work in clean uniforms during low-traffic windows. Lake Worth Lagoon seawall inspection is included on every waterfront condo building we serve.
For golf and gated communities — Ibis Golf and Country Club, Bear Lakes, Breakers West, Mayacoo Lakes — we run coordinated removal across all affected lots and water features in a defined window, rather than house by house. During spring we add egg and nest removal; this is the single highest-leverage action a community can take to break the iguana population cycle. After the initial campaign, we transition to recurring monthly maintenance with written board reporting. Our HOA iguana control guide explains the program structure in more depth.
For board members reading this: the most common mistake we see in HOA iguana management is hiring out one-off removals from whichever vendor responds first, then being surprised when iguana counts return within months. The math on a recurring program is almost always better than the math on episodic emergency removals.
The pool problem in West Palm Beach takes two distinct forms that aren't typical of other Palm Beach County cities we serve.
The first is the high-rise pool deck. WPB has more elevated pool environments than any other city in our service area — Flagler Drive condos with planted amenity decks on the 6th, 10th, or 14th floor, downtown hotels with rooftop pool terraces, and mid-rise residential buildings along Olive Avenue and Quadrille Boulevard with shared pool decks several stories up. Iguanas reach these elevated pools by climbing the building exterior, by traveling through planted balconies several floors up, or by being introduced through ground-level planting that connects to interior atrium terraces. We have removed adult green iguanas from rooftop pool decks in Flagler Drive buildings; this is not a fluke. Once an iguana settles in a rooftop planter with irrigation water and ornamental foliage, it has no incentive to leave. Removing the resident animal is only the first step — the climbing or transit route up the building has to be identified and closed off, or the next iguana will arrive within weeks.
The second WPB-specific environment is the historic-district plunge pool, typical in El Cid, Flamingo Park, the South End, and Old Northwood. These are usually small, rectangular, often unscreened pools sitting under mature mango, gumbo limbo, royal poinciana, and ficus canopy. The trees overhead drop fruit, leaves, and shade onto the pool, and iguanas use the canopy as approach cover, dropping into the deck or directly into the water. Without a screen enclosure there is no physical barrier at all, and the pool becomes part of the iguana's daily territory.
In both environments, the underlying biological concern is the same: iguana droppings carry Salmonella and other bacteria, and concentrated contamination in or around pool water is a sanitation issue, especially with children and pets. What changes between the two environments is the response. On a high-rise pool we work with property management to identify the climbing or transit route and close it off, then remove the resident animal and inspect the rooftop perimeter and amenity-deck planters for additional iguanas. On a historic-district plunge pool we work with the homeowner on canopy trimming, ground-level entry points along ornamental beds, and (where appropriate) recommending a discrete screen retrofit that doesn't compromise the property's historic character. A repeat iguana problem in a WPB pool is rarely about the iguana — it's almost always about an unaddressed access route that the next animal will use the same way.
Most South Florida property owners assume iguana pressure follows a clear seasonal curve — high in spring and summer, low in winter. In West Palm Beach specifically, that assumption is wrong, and understanding why helps you plan service correctly.
The reason is the Lake Worth Lagoon's thermal mass. The lagoon is a large body of brackish water continuously connected to the Atlantic via two inlets, with water temperatures that hold in the mid-60s through the coldest weeks of the year. Iguanas living on the lagoon shoreline — Flagler Drive, El Cid, Northwood Shores, the South End — have constant access to a thermal refuge that buffers them from the cold snaps that knock back inland populations. When the air temperature drops below 45°F and the famous "falling iguana" advisories go out, lagoon-front WPB iguanas typically retreat into burrows along the seawall, into the warm voids behind condo building exteriors, or into the canopy of mature trees on the west side of the property where the water still radiates heat. They do not die at the rates that inland iguana populations do.
The practical implication: WPB lagoon-front properties experience essentially flat year-round iguana pressure, with two short spikes layered on top.
The first spike is the spring nesting window — March through June. Females leave the water to dig nest cavities in soft, sun-exposed soil along the seawall, in landscape mulch beds, and in the bunker margins and lake banks of the western golf communities. A single Lake Worth Lagoon nest cavity can hold 30 to 50 eggs, hatching out a wave of juveniles in late summer. See our overview of iguana nesting and egg removal for the timing detail.
The second spike is post-storm. Tropical systems push iguanas inland from lagoon frontage into central downtown blocks, drive them out of saturated burrows into trees and onto roofs, and produce a sharp uptick in calls about iguanas on Flagler Drive condo balconies, on El Cid tile roofs, and inside Old Northwood screen enclosures. We expect a post-storm spike every fall.
Outside of those two windows, WPB iguanas are simply present and active most days of the year. The cold-snap "die-off" that property owners hope for never quite arrives on the lagoon; the inland neighborhoods see slightly more cold-weather attrition, but populations recover within a single season. Read more about where iguanas go at night for what's happening when you don't see them.
Most West Palm Beach homeowners' first iguana encounter is a single sighting — an adult basking on the seawall, on a Flagler Drive condo balcony, in the canopy of an El Cid mango tree, or on a Flamingo Park porch railing. In our experience, the first 24 to 48 hours after the sighting determines whether you end up with a $199 single-visit removal or a $500-plus multi-day job.
Three immediate steps are worth taking before you call us.
First, write down or photograph what you saw — time of day, location on the property, approximate length, and any other animals you've seen in the past two weeks. Iguanas are creatures of routine, and a clear pattern (for example, "large adult on the same seawall section between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. every day") lets us go directly to the animal on the first visit. Browse the signs you have an iguana problem article for the secondary indicators worth checking.
Second, look for evidence of more than one iguana. Iguana droppings (a dark green-and-white tubular form), digging at the base of seawalls or mulch beds, gnawed flower buds on hibiscus or bougainvillea, and tail-drag marks across pool decks all indicate established activity rather than a single visitor. Two or more iguanas means the population is growing on your property, which changes the right service approach.
Third, do not attempt to handle the animal yourself. Adult green iguanas reach five to six feet head-to-tail, weigh up to 17 pounds, have powerful jaws, and carry Salmonella; their tail can leave a serious welt. Yes, iguanas do bite when cornered. We've responded to enough hospital-bound homeowners after DIY attempts in WPB that we're firm about this.
Equally important: do not buy poison or hardware-store traps. There is no legal iguana poison in Florida (it would violate animal cruelty law), and live traps catch the wrong animals more often than they catch iguanas — we've removed neighbor cats, opossums, and a raccoon family from DIY-deployed traps in Old Northwood. Improper handling can also result in inadvertent release back into the wild, which is itself an FWC violation.
Then call (561) 310-1114. Same-day response is standard for WPB calls, and acting on the first or second sighting is dramatically less expensive than waiting until the iguana has nested or brought reinforcements.
Pricing for West Palm Beach properties starts at $199 for a single-visit removal — appropriate for a single iguana on a balcony, in the pool, or on a lanai. For properties with established activity (typical for Lake Worth Lagoon-front lots and the western chain-of-lakes corridor), our $500 multi-day intensive runs across consecutive days to catch the second wave of cautious animals that emerges after the bold ones are removed. For Flagler Drive condo addresses, El Cid and South End waterfront homes, and the western golf-community lots at Ibis or Bear Lakes — where the surrounding water continuously refills the iguana population — our $400/month recurring service is the right structure.
Downtown WPB hospitality accounts (hotels, Clematis Street and Rosemary Square restaurants, marinas, retail), condo associations, and HOA-wide programs at the western communities are quoted by property based on footprint, frontage, and reporting requirements. There are no fuel surcharges, mobilization fees, or upsells into pest-control add-ons; the quote you receive is what you pay.
For service tier comparisons, a full pricing breakdown, and frequently asked questions, see our pricing page.
The honest answer depends on which kind of WPB property you have. We work three distinct timelines in West Palm Beach, and which one applies to you matters.
For a single-family residential property in Flamingo Park, El Cid, Old Northwood, the South End, or any of the western neighborhoods: the visible iguana count drops sharply on the first visit, and a stable low-iguana baseline takes 30 to 60 days. The shyer animals that hid during the first visit emerge into cleared territory and are caught on follow-up. After that, what determines whether the property stays clear is what's around it. A landlocked single-family lot in Westgate or the western mid-city tends to stay clear after a single intensive engagement. A lagoon-front lot in El Cid or the South End will keep receiving new arrivals indefinitely — that's the nature of waterfront ownership in WPB and the reason our recurring service exists.
For a high-rise condo building or hotel along Flagler Drive, the timeline structure is different again. The initial campaign focuses on the building's specific iguana access points (rooftop perimeter, planted balcony entry, exterior climbing routes) rather than just on individual animals. Once the access points are identified and addressed, the iguana count on amenity decks and rooftops typically drops to near zero within 30 days. Without addressing the access route, removing individual iguanas is whack-a-mole — building exterior climbers will keep arriving from the surrounding canopy and parks. This is the most common mistake we see other vendors make in WPB high-rise environments.
For a golf or gated community in the western belt — Ibis, Bear Lakes, Breakers West, Mayacoo Lakes — the timeline is 60 to 90 days for full population reduction across the property, followed by ongoing monthly maintenance. Spring nesting season requires its own concentrated effort layered onto the baseline program. Our overview of professional iguana removal methods explains why pattern-and-pressure timing across consecutive days outperforms isolated visits.
If a vendor promises you a one-visit, permanent fix on a Lake Worth Lagoon waterfront property — or on a Flagler Drive high-rise with active iguana climbing — ask them to walk you through what they plan to do about the next animal that swims in from Palm Beach Island or climbs up from the building's planted base.
Prevention work in West Palm Beach has to be tailored to the property type more than in any other city we serve, because the access patterns and attractants are completely different on a Flamingo Park bungalow, a Flagler Drive condo, and an Ibis golf-community estate.
For historic district single-family properties (El Cid, Flamingo Park, Old Northwood, Grandview Heights, Prospect Park, the South End), the highest-leverage prevention step is canopy management. The 80-to-100-year-old mango, royal poinciana, gumbo limbo, and ficus canopy that defines these neighborhoods is also the iguanas' primary highway. Trimming overhanging branches back from rooflines, seawalls, pool cages, and detached garages closes the most-used iguana access routes. Removing fallen mango, papaya, and avocado fruit weekly during fruiting season eliminates the strongest attractant a historic-district property can produce. Sealing the gaps under detached garage slabs, raised porches, and lattice screening removes the year-round denning sites that adults use.
For Flagler Drive and Northwood Shores high-rise condo residents, the prevention angle is fundamentally different. Iguanas reach planted balconies by climbing exterior columns, by traveling across adjacent balconies, or by being introduced through planted rooftop amenity decks at building level. The single most effective step a balcony resident can take is reducing planted-bed density on the balcony itself: dense, irrigated planters with overhanging foliage are essentially balcony-sized iguana habitat at altitude. For building-wide prevention, we coordinate with property management to inspect rooftop perimeters, amenity-deck planting, and exterior climbing routes that need treatment.
For golf and gated communities in the western belt (Ibis, Bear Lakes, Breakers West, Mayacoo Lakes), the highest-leverage step is shoreline management. The lakes and connecting waterways are essentially iguana corridors, and softening the shoreline-to-landscape transition with concrete aprons, riprap edging, or barrier plantings reduces the rate at which lake-resident iguanas migrate into adjacent yards.
Across all WPB property types, the same baseline prevention rules apply: backfill visible burrows immediately, address standing water in low spots, replace iguana-favored ornamentals with iguana-resistant alternatives in new plantings (citrus, oleander, milkweed, ornamental grasses), and time landscape installation away from peak nesting season. See our iguana prevention methods guide and the overview of what attracts iguanas for the broader checklist.
Prevention won't replace professional removal on an active infestation, but combined with a recurring service it's the difference between a property that needs constant attention and one that quietly stays at near-zero iguana pressure year after year.
Iguana removal in West Palm Beach is governed by Florida state law. Green iguanas are classified as a nonnative invasive species by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) and may be humanely removed from private property year-round, without a permit, on land you own or have written permission to access. Florida statute 828.12 (animal cruelty) still applies — poisoning, drowning, and methods that cause prolonged suffering are illegal regardless of the species. Captured iguanas may not be released back into the wild and must be euthanized per AVMA guidelines.
West Palm Beach has a few additional considerations worth knowing about. The historic districts of El Cid, Flamingo Park, Old Northwood, and Grandview Heights have preservation restrictions that affect what can be done to landscaping, fences, and structural elements during removal work — we adjust our methods accordingly on historic-district jobs. The Grassy Waters Preserve and other public conservation lands inside the city are not subject to private removal and have their own management protocols. Condo and HOA boards across the city set their own rules about who can perform wildlife work on common areas, which is why we always coordinate with property management on community jobs.
For the full legal overview — FWC classification history, statute references, AVMA-approved methods, and the rules that apply specifically to property owners — see our article on Florida iguana removal laws.
We're a West Palm Beach-area, owner-operated, FWC-listed wildlife specialty company, and iguanas are essentially all we do. Our central Palm Beach County location means we can typically respond to West Palm Beach calls same-day — often within hours — without the dispatch lag of a regional pest-control franchise routing trucks from Broward or the Treasure Coast.
The thing that distinguishes our team on a West Palm Beach job is range. The same trapper who works a Flagler Drive condo balcony in the morning is on an El Cid waterfront seawall by lunch and a Bear Lakes golf-community lake by mid-afternoon — and each of those environments demands a different toolkit, a different access plan, and a different report-back protocol. We've structured our service specifically for West Palm Beach's mixed urban-historic-waterfront-suburban character, rather than trying to fit the city into a generic suburban template the way a national franchise does.
For commercial accounts in particular — downtown hotels, Clematis Street and Rosemary Square restaurants, retail along Okeechobee Boulevard, the Convention Center, and waterfront condo associations along Flagler — we work discreetly and on schedule. Our commercial visits are timed around your operating hours, our technicians are in clean uniforms, and we do not appear in front of your guests with traps and equipment unless you've asked us to. We provide written reports for your management or board, sized and formatted for the way your organization actually uses them.
For West Palm Beach customers specifically, the working relationship is direct. Calls to (561) 310-1114 reach us, not a regional call center routing tickets to whichever truck is nearest. Repeat hospitality, condo, and HOA accounts work with the same trapper visit after visit, which matters more than it sounds — the technician who learned where the burrows are on your property in March is the one walking it again in June. We don't operate a sales team and we don't bundle unrelated pest-control services. Quotes are itemized, scope is in writing, and follow-up reporting is included on commercial and recurring accounts at no additional charge.
Yes. The Flagler Drive Intracoastal corridor — including the El Cid historic district, the SoSo (South of Southern) residential tier, and the broader downtown WPB waterfront — is one of our highest-volume WPB working corridors. We coordinate with downtown property managers, the Clematis Street and Rosemary Square / CityPlace tenant tier, and the residential associations along the Flagler Drive frontage. Work scheduling fits the corridor's downtown event calendar and the Sunday Greenmarket programming windows.
Yes. The WPB historic-neighborhood tier (El Cid, Old Northwood, Northwood Hills, Prospect Park, Flamingo Park, Grandview Heights) carries a 1920s-and-1930s housing stock with mature landscape and constrained-lot work geometry. We service these neighborhoods at the standard residential pricing tiers with technique fitted to the historic-property foundation-and-landscape inventory, and coordinate work hours around the residential-density and street-parking realities each neighborhood runs.
Yes. The Okeechobee Boulevard corridor (the convention-center area, the hotel cluster, and the broader downtown commercial spine) and the Australian Avenue and Forest Hill corridors all sit in our active WPB service footprint. Work scheduling on the hotel and event-venue tier coordinates with the property's occupancy and event calendar, with vehicle staging at back-of-house service positions and reporting that fits each property's facilities-management protocol.
$199 for a West Palm Beach single-visit residential first-call. Multi-day intensives at properties with established multi-animal activity run $500. Recurring monthly programs for waterfront and corridor-driven properties run $400/month. Downtown commercial, hotel-cluster, hospitality-tier, and master-association scopes are quoted on the property's specifics. No mobilization, mileage, or after-hours surcharges. Call (561) 310-1114 for a free West Palm Beach estimate.
Same-day response on most West Palm Beach sighting calls. The Boca Raton office (ZIP 33433) puts the WPB radius — Flagler Drive, the El Cid and Old Northwood historic tier, the downtown-corridor commercial-and-residential mix, and the broader WPB residential footprint — within 25-to-40 minutes. Same-morning emergency dispatch is available for downtown hospitality-tier escalations and event-week pre-event scopes.
Call (561) 310-1114 for a free estimate. Iguana Gone Removal and Prevention — FWC-listed wildlife specialist serving Palm Beach County.