>Western Fence Lizard
Studies have shown that cases of Lyme disease are rarer in areas where the lizards are found. When ticks carrying Lyme disease feed on these lizards' blood (which they commonly do, especially around their ears), a protein in the lizard's blood kills the bacterium in the tick that causes Lyme disease. The infection inside the ticks' gut is therefore cleared and the tick no longer carries Lyme disease.
How cool is that?!
I hope you breed more fence lizards like wee breed the
Pholcus spiders.
Can't remember when I saw a lizard here. I can only offer this common toad that was rustling around in dead leaves at night. Didn't sound like a hedgehog so host went to check with a flashlight. Its bone dry atm, not a good time for amphibians to migrate. But the toads a tough. We have a pond and the garden gets watered, so it should be safe here.
