A very common lizard in southern Jersey, the Northern Fence Lizard, also nicknamed the “Pine Lizard”, can be found in the open-dry pine forest on the ground near rotten logs, downed trees, old ...

My new passenger was an Eastern Fence Lizard (sometimes called a Northern Fence Lizard above the Mason-Dixon Line, or a Pine Lizard.) His name comes from his habit of catching the sun on rail fences.

It was on a sweltering, late July day in 1999 when I saw my first fence lizard in Pennsylvania. The very thought that these sun-loving reptiles — so common in Florida, Georgia and the Pine ...

The northern fence lizard is the most abundant local lizard if, indeed, it’s meager numbers should allow for calling it “abundant” anywhere in the region.

The northern fence lizard (Sceloporus undulatus hyacinthinus) is part of a group commonly known as spiny lizards. It grows to 4-7 inches in length, and spends much of its time in the branches of ...

The tiny black-legged ticks, abundant throughout the woods of Northern California, carry microbes that can cause Lyme disease in humans they bite. The common Western fence lizards eat those ticks ...

Eastern fence lizards in northern climates tend to hatch faster than lizards in southern climates, the researchers found.

If you are on the fence about reptiles, this little lizard is appealing. The eastern fence lizard (Sceloporus undulates) is classified in the group of reptiles called spiny lizards, and it is the o… ...

The Western fence lizard has been at the center of a scientific debate in recent years related to their connection with black-legged deer ticks that carry the bacterium that causes Lyme disease.

We have the six-lined racerunner, five-lined skink, broadhead skink, western slender glass lizard, northern fence lizard and the ground skink.

The lizard is found along forest edges, rock piles, and rotting logs or stumps in the eastern U.S.. It is sometimes referred to as the prairie lizard, fence swift, gray lizard, northern fence ...

Another lizard with a restricted range in Hoosierland is the northern fence lizard. It is only found in the southern third of Indiana. It is most abundant in the hilly, rocky nonglaciated section ...