How to find a Five Lined Skink???

**Pareeeee** · 10-27-11, 08:24 PM

Ok so I know it's too late now with winter coming on any day, but once spring comes, my yearly hunt for Ontario's only lizard continues. Everyone else seems to see them, without looking for them. Everyone! friends, family members...except for me!! And I purposely go looking for them!! It's so frustrating when everyone else gets to see these guys except for me, lol...
I just know some day I will find one and I won't have my camera...

Anyone know what time of year, what habitat and what techniques to finding these guys! I simply MUST find one. I've been looking every summer for years and years!

ZARADOZIA · 10-28-11, 05:16 AM

Awww

I have 4 that live around my house. I see them in early summer (May-June)the most. I found this for you, maybe it is helpful:

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Originally Posted by Five Lined Skinks

Five-lined Skinks mate in the Spring and females will dig a nest under a log, stump, or rock. She will lay up to a dozen eggs, which will hatch between June and August, depending on when they were laid. Females will stay with their eggs until they hatch. She will also eat any unhatched eggs.

These lizards are found in moist woods where there are a lot of logs, stumps, and rockpiles to go along with leaf litter.

Five-lined Skinks are diurnal, so they are active during the day. They like to crawl out on rocks or logs to bask (soak up heat from the sun) during the day.

They are also always looking for a meal. Five-lined Skinks eat mostly insects, including: crickets, grasshoppers, beetles, and caterpillars. They also eat spiders, earthworms, snails, slugs, isopods, other lizards, and small mice.

Five-lined Skinks will often climb dead trees where there are a lot of insects.

Five-lined Skink

bigsnakegirl785 · 10-28-11, 05:50 AM

In Minnesota I used to find blue-tailed skinks all the time and five-lined skinks about half as often. I usually found them in scrubby, dry areas under rocks or wood. I would usually 3-15 all scrunched under one rock it was insane. I could only catch about 50% haha.

**Pareeeee** · 10-28-11, 06:59 AM

grrrr you people! you get to see them too. LOL. Thanks for the info. I'll have to go hunting again in the spring...