Western Fence Lizard
(Sceloporus Occidentalis)
Characteristics
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The western fence lizard has large spiny scales.They have spiny scales also on their thighs the back and belly. they have blue patches on their throat and stomach on males. The western fence lizard detaches its tail to escape when the predator is distracted. The western fence lizard is found in these colors brown and black to com
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Diet
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Smaller Western fence lizards like to eat insects like ants, flies, and baby crickets.The older ones like to eat spiders, worms, crickets and grasshoppers.
Habitat
Most Western Fence Lizards live in California, but also in Washington,Oregon, Nevada, southwestern Idaho, western Utah, and northwestern Baja California.
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They live in place which include suburbia, grasslands, sagebrush, woodlands, coniferous forest, and even farmland.
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They like to avoid places that are to dense and moist or to hot.
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Interesting Facts
The Western Fence Lizard has a protein in its blood, that can kill Lyme disease, which is the most common tick-carried disease in the Northern Hemisphere. When a tick bites them and drinks their blood the bacteria is killed and then the flea will no longer carry it.
