#broad-headed skink

[legokingfisher]

Hello sweet thang

[deathtek]

6/24/22

[sagehaubitze]

Everyone needs affection, including five-lined skinks. (2015)

[vixen525]

Broad headed skink basking on a tree. Probably has been happily hunting the cicadas.

[bestofasbestos]

Skink!!

[herpsandbirds]

Any neat east tennesse reptiles?

I don't know how many "blue snakes" I've had to come move for my neighbor that remain blue tailed skinks 🤣

Tennessee Herps:

Yeah, I can manage that for you!

Broad-headed Skink or Broadhead Skink (Plestiodon laticeps), male, family Scincidae, SE United States

Photograph by Kevin Hutcheson

Scarlet Snake (Cemophora coccinea), family Colubridae, found in the SE United States

Coral snake mimic, non-venomous.

photograph by Tyler Christensen

Rough Green Snake (Opheodrys aestivus), family Colubridae, found in the Eastern and central U.S.

photograph by Mike Wilhelm

Ring-necked snake (Diadophis punctatus), family Colubridae

photograph by Adrian Bara-Popa

Bog Turtles (Glyptemys muhlenbergii), family Emydidae

CRITICALLY ENDANGERED.

Found only in bogs and other calcareous wetlands in the NE United States.

photographs by Mike Knoerr (B) and Joe Pignatelli (T)

Eastern Box Turtle (Terrapene carolina), male, family Emydidae

photograph by Larry McGahey

[cornsnoot]

broad headed skink i saw yesterday!

[burdsandwurds]

my wife and i went on a walk at shawnee lookout for a mini date earlier in the week. i didn’t get to going through my photos and uploading them to inaturalist until just now though, on account of being so tired. this photo is a little on the blurry side because my camera needs a desperate cleaning, but i’m still so happy about how it turned out.

i can’t speak for elsewhere, but here in ohio, our five lined and broad headed skinks are quite shy and are quick to run away. this little one not only stayed put on the log, but was willing to stay put while i moved for a better angle. i could not have asked for more!

this robber fly is probably nothing special to anyone else either, but i just love the green in the background and wanted to share for that reason alone.

if you’re reading this, i think you’re beautiful.

[spring-sage]

Two Broad-headed Skinks trying to kill each other.

[janeaudron]

Found this little fella hanging out in my carrots. A broad-headed skink!

[wanderfullyadventurous]

Back In Season, May 25, 2024.

We’re back at it for the season, officially back to our wanderful adventuring. We already made a lot of new friends!

2 large black snakes crossed our path. Over 20 (probably—we didn’t keep count) blue-tailed skinks and broad headed skinks.

We venture forth, and wander fully adventurous.

[bluegekk0]

Hewo!!

Sorry if this has been asked before, but your last art with PK and Grimm generated a question in my head for once :D

Does your PK has pika? (i hope this is how you spell it), basically the condition when one eats things that aren't meant for food? Especially with him being a Worm an all, he probably eat girt? 🤔

hiiii hello ❤️

well, for starters, i don't really see him as a worm, personally. from what i've read, the more broad definition of wyrm covers other crawling animals such as snakes, so he has much more in common with snakes and other reptiles. if you look at my art of his previous wyrm form, i tried to portray him as more lizard-like for that reason. i imagine wyrms as something of a mix between a desert skink and a snake, which ends up giving it an eastern dragon kind of look. just with a particularly freaky looking mouth at the front haha

but to actually answer your question, yeah, he does occasionally eat non-food items. his digestive system is very strong, he can digest pretty much anything (a leftover adaptation from his giant burrowing form), and while he doesn't usually eat them intentionally, mostly because they offer no nutritional value, it does happen sometimes, especially when he's feeling very stressed and needs to gnaw on something. in those situations he'd definitely reach for a rock, or a metal rod, or anything of that sort. sometimes he ends up eating whatever he's chewing on, but his stomach can deal with it so it's not a big issue, no matter what it is

[dangerousbutterknife]

Went herping in the blue ridge mountains and found some lovely friends!

1 and 2: A lovely eastern box turtle (Terrapene carolina carolina) with bright orange patterns. In person it was nearly red! Likely an adult male, he was rather big and lively.

3: Another eastern box turtle, this one around the same size with light yellow patterns. Probably a female, and given the proximity to the male I'm hoping she's gravid since they're a vulnerable species. I didn't want to bother her much and kept my distance.

4 and 5: A small eastern fence lizard (Sceloporus undulatus) was probably about a year old judging by the size. The cinder blocks also had a five-lined skink (Plestiodon fasciatus) with a missing tail and two broad-headed skinks (Plestiodon laticeps) who were fighting for territory. The skinks were way too fast to catch and I wasn't able to get food pictures of them. :(

6: There were hundreds, if not thousands, of baby salamanders. Possibly red-backed salamanders (Plethodon cinereus) because they're so tiny and not in a larval stage, although it's hard to tell with the dim lighting. I've also seen northern dusky salamanders (Desmognathus fuscus) in the area. The mountain spring was gorgeous and probably one of the cleanest water sources I've ever seen. You could drink right from the spring box, and the place I was staying was on the same aquifer.

Not pictured is a HUGE black racer (Coluber constrictor) that made a home in a collapsed shed. It was easily over six feet long and very handsome. I wish I had my phone when I saw it because it was gorgeous.

[sagehaubitze]

(2019)

Saw the BIG LADY (female broad headed skink) out and about. She’s been around for a loooooonnngggg time, seen her for many years. She’s very tame though, I walk right up to her all the time and she just sits there and nonchalantly glances at me, so I decided to take some ~glamour shots~ today.

bonus content: a very confused (and way smaller) male five lined skink was very interested in her (and me). They all live around the woodshed, so.. who knows.

[torchickentacos]

FOUND A BROAD-HEADED SKINK!!!!!!! threatened species! it shat on me but that's okay

[shadowkira]

The landscape and the wildlife that can be found there.

Broad Headed Skink (may be five-lined, but size was consistent with broad headed. I was out by myself and could not get proper photos of the head to confirm with scale count.)

Eastern Garter Snake

Eastern American Toad

Ring-Neck Snake

Eastern Box Turtle

Eastern Eyed Click Beetle