What do lizards eat?

I think that many of you are interested in knowing what lizards eat. In this article we will tell you what the ordinary lizards eat and what the lizards eat.

Almost all species of lizards are predators, howeverthe food of the lizards varies according to their species. Thus, for example, small lizards and most medium-sized lizards feed mainly on various invertebrate creatures. These are insects, arachnids, worms and mollusks. Larger lizards, such as tegus or lizards, feed on small vertebrates. These are frogs, snakes, small mammals, birds. They love the eggs of birds and reptiles and eat even smaller lizards. Large species of lizards attack and on large animals - deer, wild boar and even buffalo!

There are also species of lizards that feed ona special type of food. For example, the lizard milk feeds only on ants, and the pink-tongued skink eats only terrestrial mollusks. There are also species of large lizards that can feed on plants - in whole or in part. They eat fruits, leaves, plant flowers and young shoots. For example, the Madagascar gecko eats not only insects, but also feeds on nectar and pollen of various colors, as well as the flesh of various ripe fruits. And, for example, the blue-tongued skink prefers leaves and shoots of plants along with various invertebrates.

Recently, the fashion has gone to keep somekinds of lizards at home. Some may have already seen a rather strange picture when someone was walking a large lizard on a harness. Most likely, you saw an iguana. The good thing is that the iguana is a completely herbivorous lizard. It eats various vegetables, fruits (most of all iguanas like plums and strawberries) and salads. I must say that the iguana bite is not too painful, but if you do not like something, they can hit hard with a tail.

However, the iguana for many is a creature toolarge, so we recommend to pay attention to a small cute lizard - euplefar. They are completely tame and absolutely not afraid of man not only at home, but also in the wild, so keeping them at home is not difficult. Euplicans are fed by various insects: flies, crickets, cockroaches. Many also have chameleons. They are larger than the euphemist, but they feed mainly on the same insects. There are devices that simulate living insects, but it is best to feed the chameleons with real live, and not dried flies and cockroaches.

We told what the lizards eat at home andsome wild, now a few words about what the field lizards eat. Field lizards feed according to their species. Most of the field lizards are predators, therefore they feed mainly on insects and small vertebrates (usually frogs), but there are also herbivorous species, which are a minority, and such lizards that feed on both insects and plants. Before you start a lizard, find out more about it, because different types of lizards require different conditions of detention.