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Echophoto 3
On spring break, I went to Los Angeles, California and came across what I believe to be a juvenile Coast Range Fence Lizard (Sceloporus occidentalis bocourtii) which is a native lizard to the area. This Coast Range Fence lizard is important in the food web in LA, California. This lizard is food to many predators including, but not limited to, birds, snakes, spiders and even other lizards. The lizard itself is a predator of small invertebrates such as spiders, crickets, ticks, scorpions and other various small creatures. Fun fact, it has developed a cool mechanism in which it produces a protein in its blood that kills the bacterium that causes Lyme disease allowing the lizard to withstand the attack and consumption of ticks.
It was awesome seeing LA and seeing how different the species of plants and animals were that inhabit the area, and how it is so different to that of Wilmington!
Sources:
www.burkemuseum.org/blog/western-fence-lizard
www.californiaherps.com/lizards/pages/s.o.bocourtii.html#...
Echophoto 3
On spring break, I went to Los Angeles, California and came across what I believe to be a juvenile Coast Range Fence Lizard (Sceloporus occidentalis bocourtii) which is a native lizard to the area. This Coast Range Fence lizard is important in the food web in LA, California. This lizard is food to many predators including, but not limited to, birds, snakes, spiders and even other lizards. The lizard itself is a predator of small invertebrates such as spiders, crickets, ticks, scorpions and other various small creatures. Fun fact, it has developed a cool mechanism in which it produces a protein in its blood that kills the bacterium that causes Lyme disease allowing the lizard to withstand the attack and consumption of ticks.
It was awesome seeing LA and seeing how different the species of plants and animals were that inhabit the area, and how it is so different to that of Wilmington!
Sources:
www.burkemuseum.org/blog/western-fence-lizard
www.californiaherps.com/lizards/pages/s.o.bocourtii.html#...