Hannah Chin

Okay, so I've been looking into a question from one of our listeners in Lawrenceville, Georgia, which is a suburb about 30 miles outside downtown Atlanta.

So this is Shabnam Khan.

She's lived in and around the area since 1986.

And clearly, she really loves the place she lives, partly because it's so lush.

Yeah, Atlanta is beautiful.

It's also subtropical, so I imagine there's lots of plants that thrive there.

Exactly, which is great for Shabnam because she loves to garden.

But there's one problem with her garden, Emily.

A problem that's been visiting pretty regularly, that started small.

A lizard here and there.

And it's just not going away.

Shabnam told me she doesn't even want to be in her garden anymore.

She's so stressed out by...

this spike in garden visitors.

And she says it's not uncommon for her to hear an army of frogs croaking in her neighborhood at night or to find multiple brightly colored lizards sunning on the grass.

And now she's like, where did all of these come from?

Today on the show, we are going on a lizard hunt.

We're talking to local experts about why so many lizards and frogs are showing themselves now, and whether there's a way to manage Shabnam's clammy, scaly little problem.

And this month, Emily, you and I are investigating the world of herpetology, frogs, snakes, lizards, salamanders, to help out our listener Shabnam in Georgia.

I love it.