Figure 1.

(a) Photograph of ventral side of male Florida scrub lizard taken in the field. Note the accumulation of chigger mites in the gular fold (outlined by white square). (b) Magnified image of larval Eutrombicula cinnabaris (chigger mite) sampled from a male scub lizard and slide‐mounted in Hoyer's medium. (c–d) Histograms of the blue color badge and black border of male scrub lizards with median brightness values collected from Florida scrub (FSC) (c) and longleaf pine (LLP) (d). In each histogram, colors have been binned into 10 values and the length of each color segment represents the proportion of each color. (e–f) Chromaticity diagrams of the blue badge color sampled for lizards with median brightness values from FSC and LLP, respectively. Note that chromaticity diagrams are shown as red‐green‐blue (RGB) values with percent blue on the Y‐axis, percent red on the X‐axis, and percent green on the Z‐axis