Comments on: Legless Lizard

By: Sue

Sue — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 05:13:00 +0000

Hi I live in vic and not sure what seort my one is I think a sotty Its about 1 1/2 foot long, do you buy the crickets. and what eles do thay eat. Sue

By: L

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 01:29:28 +0000

Hello there. I’ve had a glass lizard for a couple years now and he’s a great pet. I was at a friends house one day while he was cutting the grass and rescued the little guy from a mowing. His name is Shifty and he lives in an aquarium with lots of large smooth pebbles that he can burrow around in and hide when he wants to. It’s also important to give keep a nice large bowl of water in the aquarium with him, as he seems to like to take a swim on occasion, and I believe the water is also helpful to him when he’s molting.

He has lived for the last couple years on a diet of crickets and seems quite happy with that. He is probably a foot and a half long and eats about 3 crickets a day. Some days a little less, depending on how he’s feeling.

He has never bitten me, but he has bitten my daughter a couple times. As with snakes, handling them with some confidence seems to be the best way to avoid a nibbling. His bite appears to be like a hard pinch though, nothing that is going to do any real damage. My recommendation is to go into the experience expecting to get bitten a couple times and you’ll be fine.

If anyone has any questions, feel free to ask.

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 08:00:34 +0000

Great post. Your post has been added to the Magnified Nature Meme http://naturemagnified.blogspot.com/p/meme.html.

By: wonderer

wonderer — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:06:58 +0000

I am wondering: HOW DO LEGLESS LIZARDS FIND THEIR FOODS WHEN IN THE WILD? Please help me. if you know write a fcomment on it and put your name is answers to wonderer.ONCE AGAIN PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Legless Lizard we believe | What's That Bug? — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:06:28 +0000

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By: dave laird

dave laird — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:41:59 +0000

well monique i let mine go and i have seen it since and i also caught another one even bigger than the first one i also let that one go i think i have a family of them in my yard i also handled the bigger one and it did not bite…. you can find what they eat on this web site well enjoy him or her ….Dave

By: monique

monique — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:27:04 +0000

i found 1 today aswell a little different tho probably because I’m in WA. mines also in a fish tank. what are you doing with yours to look after it? do you know if they all don’t bite? as i haven’t yet held mine worried it will bite me?

By: Monique

Monique — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:24:44 +0000

I now have one as a pet how should i look after him(Fred) beside bugs and things? x

By: dave laird

dave laird — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 23:23:34 +0000

i just caught a legless lizard in my backyard today in daytona beach shores florida it looks just like the one in the first picture it has a speckled head real friendly can handle it no problem i have it in a fish tank im going to keep it as a pet its pretty cool looking

By: Samantha Stackpole

Samantha Stackpole — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:00:27 +0000

I just found a half dead one in my backyard in Venice, Florida. I brought it to the AMAZING people at the Venice Wildlife Center and they said they hadn’t seen one in over 20 years! I don’t know if that means they’re rare or not, but he sure was cool looking. I hope he recovers:)

By: Joe Krasinski

Joe Krasinski — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:24:07 +0000

I found a legless lizard in my garden in Tallahassee florida. I thought it was a snake but due to its sleek body and color I looked up legless lizard and when next exanming the specimen its tail broke off as well as my heart do to the fact that I feel I caused its loss to its body form of this beautiful creature.

The article says its rare. How rare is it if at all? I will let it go in the forest or offer it to the local Natural Museium that cares for creatures of the wild.|Thnak you for your time in this matter.

By: neta mills

neta mills — Sun, 24 May 2009 02:28:31 +0000

this looks like a nest we found under our shed in oakdale ca. we caugt one but the rest are still under the shed

By: jason

jason — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:28:25 +0000

i am from covington county and i know where there has to be a community of these lizards from the top photo i captured one years ago and didnt know what it was and noone could tell me also about a mile from that place i remember one being hit in the road, i would be willing to share info on the location of these if anyone needs to study them.

By: MA-FEH

MA-FEH — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:18:56 +0000

was amazed by this creature I REALY DIDN’T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT IT

By: au9eL_06

au9eL_06 — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:50:50 +0000

cool photos love to look at them…
wonder if they also have videos of them..???hmmm…

By: js

js — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:31:03 +0000

The most obvious difference between a snake and lizard is that all lizards have ears; no snakes have ears.