My youngest grandson (13) captured this female desert spiny lizard today. The lizard was trapped in a home made water bottle trap. Pretty big lizard I'll have to measure her.




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Nice to have around the house, they eat scorpions and spiders!

That's cool.

Looks like a dragon with those scales

Cool! I haven't seen one quite like that by me. We've seen plenty of large skinks, whiptails, some horny toads, and those lizards with the blue on the bottom whose name eludes me at the moment.

Edit: I think they are southwestern fence lizards.

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Originally posted by flesheatingvirus:
Cool! I haven't seen one quite like that by me.

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I've only seen the spiny lizard a few times. I've seen them in the Manzano foothills. Recently in the subdivision my daughter lives in, west of the freeway in LL.

Originally my grandson thought it was an escaped bearded dragon.

We also have seen a lot of little or baby lizards that I've never seen. Small black lizard with a gray stripe down its back. Too fast to get decent pictures.

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Very pretty lizzard! You guys have some fun critters down there.

We have a lot of those around our home. Very cool lizards with plenty of evidence of how that got their name. Word of caution to your grandson: They do have a healthy bite!

Good picture. At least one Texas Spiney Lizard vists our back porch about once a week. It may be a female as I have seen baby lizards recently. It's name is Spiney the Guard Lizard.

Very cool little critter.

Love those! They become used to people and will begin to hang around the house on a regular basis.