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Okay, folks.....help me out here. The other day I saw a lizard on my front porch in Cary. What is gooooing on? It was a good 4 inches long and about as round as my index finger. The little bugger just sat there and looked at me......like I was somehow bothering him!!!
Are lizards common in this area and/or is there something else that it could have been? It sure did look like a lizard. I live in Kildaire Farms, off of Two Creeks Road, and there's that little body of water right behind the Tennis and Swim Club. I'm guessing that it slithered up to my house from there?
Heh, heh, heh.....flocks of geese in my front yard, cranes in the nearby Apex lake/reservoir, and now lizards on my porch. Yes, I'm sure I don't live in western PA anymore!
I have seen a lot of lizards and skinks since we moved down here. I love them. So cute.
Anolis carolinensis, the Carolina Anole
Eumeces inexpectatus and several related skink species
Sceloporus undulatus, commonly known as either the Fence Lizard or Swift
They're just a large class of lizard, but they generally have no neck and shorter legs and move almost more snakelike than on legs, even though they do have legs. Their skin is usually smooth and moist and shiny and many have a blue stripe down the back of the juveniles.
Heh, heh, heh.....flocks of geese in my front yard, cranes in the nearby Apex lake/reservoir, and now lizards on my porch. Yes, I'm sure I don't live in western PA anymore!
No, BettyBoop, you and Toto aren't in PA anymore.
We have no water near by, but we do have a few of those lovely lizards.
Unfortunately, the other day I saw one scurrying along with half its tail almost cut off It was hanging just by a bare thread. It upset me, because I thought that maybe it had been hiding under the trash barrel and I could have done that by moving the barrel, or something, at some point. I can still see it, and it still bothers me. I can't stand to hurt or kill things.
Can they survive without the tail, or regrow it the way lobsters regrow body parts?
We have no water near by, but we do have a few of those lovely lizards.
Unfortunately, the other day I saw one scurrying along with half its tail almost cut off It was hanging just by a bare thread. It upset me, because I thought that maybe it had been hiding under the trash barrel and I could have done that by moving the barrel, or something, at some point. I can still see it, and it still bothers me. I can't stand to hurt or kill things.
Can they survive without the tail, or regrow it the way lobsters regrow body parts?
Most of those little lizards have the capability of dropping part of their tail as a defense mechanism. As a child I played with many a lizard growing up in FL where they are literally EVERYWHERE! I've seen them drop their tails when feeling threatened, the dropped portion still wiggling long after the lizard has escaped. Don't worry, they can survive fine without it and it will grow back! I have a feeling that it probably doesn't even hurt them all that much.
I have seen more skinks since I've been here in NC than lizards. I really like the skinks, as we had some in FL, but you don't see them nearly as often as the cute little lizards. So it has been very cool to be walking along and see a skink slither by!
Hey, at least it was just on your porch and not inside the house! I had one probably at least that size run across the bathroom floor one day!
I don't mind them though - I figure they eat bugs, and anything that eats bugs is okay in my book!
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It was hanging just by a bare thread.
It upset me, because I thought that maybe it had been hiding under the trash barrel and I could have done that by moving the barrel, or something, at some point. I can still see it, and it still bothers me. I can't stand to hurt or kill things. 
