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Good Garden Reptiles: Snakes, Lizards and Toads, Oh My!

Beneficial garden critters include pest-eating reptiles and amphibians. These snakes, lizards, toads and frogs should be welcomed into your garden.

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Photo: Photo by Felder Rushing

Good Garden Reptile

There are several very beneficial reptiles that will help rid your garden of countless pests - if you can learn to garden alongside them!

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Photo: Photo by Felder Rushing

Anole lizards, often called chameleons for their color-changing abilities, eat garden pests up high in the garden.

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Photo: Photo by Felder Rushing

Skinks are small but fast ground-level lizards that eat countless slugs and other garden pests.

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Photo: Photo by Felder Rushing

Fast-moving lizards can outrun—and eat—most small garden pests.