When I was a kid, we called these things “hell hogs.”
I have never found the etymology, or any other place where they are called by this name.
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I’ve never heard them called that name. I like it though.
Around here, we call them ‘blue bellies’.
That’s what we called them. Our backyard was full of them until I got my first dog when I was ten.
Someone else calls them hell hogs, and your dad grew up in West Virginia.
That’s what West Virginians call northern fence lizards.
Interesting: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/01/28/lizard-evolution-ants.html
The ones in the northern part of their range aren’t going to experience this selection pressure. We have no fire ants, and they can’t colonize here.
The ones on the West Coast are a different species, but it’s the same genus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_fence_lizard
We also used to catch them using this method: http://www.macnstuff.com/mcfl/1/lizard.html
I always caught them with my bare hands.
When I was growing up my grandpa would take me around old wells and rock piles and catch them.
Then I’d keep them for about a week, and then turn them loose in the woodpile.
I wish I’d had a lizard catcher to catch those hell hogs.
Hell hogs – great name!