slow worm
blindworm
anguis fragilis latin

The following habitats are found across the Slow worm distribution range.

On warm days, one or more slow worms will often be found underneath these heat collectors.

As their name indicates, slow worms are slow moving and can be easily caught.

A slow worm can live in the garden.

The island is also home to slow worms (Anguis fragilis).

Lizards (and therefore slow worms) do while snakes are lidless.

Slow worms are frequently found in garden compost heaps, or any place both warm and protected.

Sometimes, slow worms are taken, and even weasels and moles.

Other reptiles, including slow worms, smooth snakes and lizards are already on the protected list.

Slow worms look superficially like snakes, but are actually legless lizards.

Slow worms develop young inside their bodies.

Viparian life includes the slow worm and the adder.

Like many lizards, slow worms can shed their tails to distract predators.

There is only one known kind of reptile on the island, the pseudo-snake slow worm, but no true snakes have been reported.

The skin of the varieties of slow worm is smooth with scales that do not overlap one another.

Sometimes, they eat slow worms and lizards.

Even though they are lizards, slow worms have lost their legs and are usually mistaken for snakes.

Anguis, or the slow worm, is a small genus of lizard in the family Anguidae.

Slow worms are quite the opposite: not worms and definitely not slow.

Slow worms are semi-fossorial (burrowing) lizards spending much of the time hiding underneath objects.

Like many other lizards, slow worms autotomize, meaning that they have the ability to shed their tails in order to escape predators.

Living in the crevices between rocks, slow worms hunt by day for slugs, snails, small insects and spiders.

One of the biggest causes of mortality in slow worms in suburban areas is the domestic cat, against which it has no defence.

It is also home to Slow worms ('Anguis fragilis') with larger than usual blue markings.

There are six species of reptile on the island; three snakes and three lizards including the legless slow worm.

It is also sometimes referred to as the blindworm or blind worm.

"He might have had some kind of herb, or maybe some juice from a blindworm, to make us blind."

It began a hasty retreat, curled back on itself and wriggled like a blindworm.

"I'm here, you great feathered blindworm," she called.

The Hawk and the blindworm.

After they had gone a few hundred yards, Roverton almost trod on a black creature shaped like an enormous blindworm, which was crawling away from the stream.

It was a greenly weaving ribbon of light, a snakelike stream of glowing, phosphorescent particles that moved like a blindworm over and across the vast rocky shelf.

Anguis fragilis (the slow worm, slow-worm, slowworm, blindworm or blind worm) is a limbless (meaning it has no legs or arms) reptile that lives only in Eurasia.