Blah+the+blue+tailed+mole+skink

Blah The blue tailed mole skink My interests are eating bugs and ewie things that crawl. My hobbies are playing with my friends in the sand and scrub of the coast of florida. I am only 2 weeks old and I'm very fast for my age

I am endangered because of beach houses and they are building over my home

lives in the peninsula of Florida America It's found in sand and scrub (on the beach) Cockroaches,crickets and spiders

I am endangered because of beach houses and all of the beach houses that are being built on the coast of Florida and because of all of the cars and people I have no prey or in other words food and so it is almost becoming impossible to live here. Also not to mention the houses are being built on top of all of our houses so we have nowhere to live and so we Move to places such as backyards and things like that and now some people see us as pests and so if humans see us in the backyard we are probably going to get killed or we are going to loose a limb! So therefore soon we will have no place to live and our kind will die out. So  what will happen when all of my brothers and sisters and cousins along with me all die might you ask, well let's just say if you live in the coast of Florida don't let the bed bugs bite! If me and all of my buddies aren't there to eat these bugs there will be thousands of bugs being left to breed and then will become a huge problem in the coast of Florida and if it gets really bad humans won't be able to live there anymore and they will have wiped out an exotic species for nothing.

I think that we can help this problem by breeding heaps and heaps of blue tailed mole skinks and then releasing them into the wild and there will be a large reserve on the coast of Florida that we can use and we will begin to build the houses at least 15 meters from the scrub that they live in. Another way we can help is to recycle all cans and plastics and then the blue tailed mole skinks will not be at risk of eating rubbish and then becoming sick and eventually dying.

Some things we have done to help these fascinating creatures is that there are always recycling bins at the beach so people don't feel the need to litter and harm animals. One thing that they do is conservationists block off parts of the beach so that people don't trample on their eggs or nests sort of just like penguins status: threatened Listed: November 6,1987 Family: skink Description: lizard wit h long, narrow, cylindrical body; bluish tail in young years Habitat: sand pine scrub Food: insects and arachnids  Reproduction: clutch of three to seven eggs

Threats: residential development Range: Florida     

Mole skinks eat by pulling their prey under the sand and the consume them.

They mate in the winter.

From the Floridian nature website and a show on abc2