This Common Yard Item In Southern Utah Can Become a Kill Zone For Lizards

Living in Southern Utah, you are used to seeing lizards crawl up the side of your house and along block walls. Living in the heat, these little reptiles are looking for water and leaving a plastic bucket outside can prove lethal to these wall crawlers.

How Rainwater Can and a Bucket Can Strand Lizards

Having a plastic bucket from one of the hardware stores or an old paint bucket can be handy. When you have one sitting in the yard and it gets water in the bottom from a rain storm, you may soon find a lizard catastrophe in the bottom.

Sensing the water, they will crawl inside for a drink and find they can't climb out. The microscopic hairs on their feet can't grip the plastic like it can the stucco. For this reason, leaving out a bucket can prove lethal.

The Mystery of Lizard Pushups: Not Really For Exercise

Speaking of lizards, have you ever wondered why they do pushups? If you watch, sometimes they will be on a rock and start to do pushups. Suddenly the little reptile is working on his guns while taking a break from scurrying from one bush to another. 

Some of it is to impress the ladies. This site about animals says lizards may do it to court a female and show their strength. However, female lizards do pushups as well, and for the same reason.

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Lizards also do pushups to show dominance over rival males. Not so much to show strength, but to increase their profile. Not all lizards show this behavior, though. They might impress others more if they could just stay out of a bucket.