What Do Blue Tail Lizards Eat?
A few different lizards have blue tails in their youth, but the one commonly called "blue-tailed" is the five-lined skink. A skink is a type of lizard, and the broadhead skink and Great Plains skink also have blue tails until they mature. All of these lizards, native to the United States, have a common diet.
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Insects
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Blue-tailed skinks primarily eat insects. They like ants, caterpillars, crickets, moths, small beetles and small grasshoppers. Lizards are important for controlling populations of termites.
Spiders
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Lizards, including the ones with blue tails, also eat spiders.
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Earth and Water Creatures
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The five-lined skink and other skinks enjoy eating earthworms and slugs, which they can dig from the earth. They also eat snails and crustaceans, which they find in waterways.
Other Food Sources
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These blue-tailed lizards grow to 6 to 8 inches long. If they find newborn mice or shrews, they eat those animals. They also eat small frogs and lizards.
Unhatched Eggs
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Mature female five-lined skinks lay up to 12 eggs. If any do not hatch because the babies did not survive, the female eats those eggs.
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References
- Photo Credit photo by Eric Fleming at http://www.flickr.com/photos/efleming/237379205/
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I seen one witch a wite stripe and a blue tail is it poisonis halp becaus of my 3 dogs.
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I seen one in my room that looks lik that witch a wite tail are thay poison tail.
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thanks I needed to know how to feed mine.
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cool
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no
