Good or bad?

[Diane]

I seem to be finding lots of strange looking creatures around my flowers....
Is this a good one or bad one....? And what is that on top of h is head!? Goodness! That could make you jump.....or it could me!

[Spider_Lily]

I would think the lizard would be good for catching the bug's eating your plant's.I have a few to .I was watering my flower's yesterday and my sweet darling son caught one and tried to put it on me.I slapped his hand and it got away into a shrub.Thank goodness.I like to watch them but Do Not want it on me. LOL

[BarefootGardener]

I have a lizard in one of my flower beds. I guess I sort of assume that anything living (except poisonous snakes) are signs that my garden is good ecologically. Your lizard is pretty. Does he have a name? Mine is one of those striped guys with a bright blue tale. He seems to really like my blue garden hose. Hmmmm. Wonder what that means.

[frugal gal]

Looks like an anoles lizard.
Very good to have in the garden.
He has been shedding his skin, that is what's on his head.

Alot of people do not know we have a few different types of lizards here in Ohio.

2 years ago Larry and I were standing in the yard talking and a lizard similar to this one ran up the leg of my pants.....oh yeah, those pants came off right there in the yard.
I never heard Larry laugh so hard, he was crying.

[Diane]

Thank you all..I alway heard lizards were good..but this had like a shield thingy on his head and I just wasn't sure...Thanks FG...so that is part of his skin he is shedding? Amazing! They are welcome to hang around the flowers but not up my pant leg...OH MY!

[snowmm]

I want a lizard. Where do I get a lizard?

[zuzu's petals]

Awww, isn't he/she beautiful in that lovely new skin?

Yup, a good critter, eats baddies,
saw one munching on a little cockroach a couple of days ago in my potting shed.

We also have lots of those wonderful blue tailed skinks in the garden Shirley,
they can become quite large and rather tame, in time.

[gone_tropical]

I love my lizards they are my pest control!.... I don't use any poison in my yard and the result is a heaven for all critters. No poison means the bugs are healthy , and therefore the bigger critters are healthy as well. Just think, the bugs don't all die of the poison some get just sick. birds and lizards eat them and get a dose of the poison that way. vicious cicle.
So, lizards eat all the bugs, the birds and the frogs catch the slow lizards and so on.
Just now a bunch of lizards hatched and I have itty bitty lizard babies everywhere. so I walk really funny through my yard... shuffle is a better word. No one better step on MY lizards
And at night, go out with a flashlight and you can just look at the undersides of leaves and find the sleeping lizards. You can just pick them up, put in a container and relocate if you don't like them in your yard.

[Diane]

GT...how awesome..I didn't know all that..very good inf..I'll have to get my flashlight out...awesome!

BareFootGardener::::I suppose I'll name it Goodness...because that's what I said when I almost touched it...
so if I see another I'll name it Gracious! Goodness..Gracious! LOL.. I think I might be tired!


snowmm...If I could I'd send you one!

[BarefootGardener]

I like that, Goodness and Gracious. I'll have to think about a name for the guy who has a crush on my blue garden hose.

[snowmm]

Thanks Diane!

You can buy butterflies...and walking sticks...and other things but I haven't seen lizards for the yard.

[needmoresoil]

He's cute Diane! You should name him.

[Saba]

its sooooo cute,Diane, no lizards here, just ants ,flys, moscitos and other ugly bugs, yak,

and I think one of the bugs got to my comp. its soooo slow

[Diane]

Thank you all for your comment.. I have learned alot about these fellows...have got the flashlight out yet....Ummmm...may have to let hubby do that....LOL..I'll get better!

[gone_tropical]

take a close look, do you see the lizard has actualy brown eyes? they are round and cute.... and she has a very friendly 'hello-to-you-too' look .... somehow... btw, I think it is a 'she'