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Five-lined skink
Plestiodon fasciatus
38.7688, -76.6976
Field Notes
Description:
Five lined lizard
This lizard ranges from 12.5-21.5 cm long (males growing slightly larger than females).
They are usually black or dark brown, with five light stripes down their backs. Stripes fade as the skink gets older, so adults may look all brown.
Young skinks have very clear stripes and a bright blue tail. Females may keep a very full bluish-gray tail as they age, but males' tails will turn brown.
What they eat?insects, including: crickets, grasshoppers, beetles, and caterpillars. They also eat spiders, earthworms, snails, slugs, isopods, other lizards, and small mice.
Habitat:
Old woodlots or areas with a great deal of downed, decaying wood or debris. They usually seek the moist places under debris but may also be found in dead or decaying snags where insects are abundant.
Notes:
Diurnal .
Reproduction occurs in late spring or early summer
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