Slow Worms

• Slow worms are legless lizards, not snakes

• Male slow worms are grey brown in colour, females are brown and have dark sides with a line running down their back.

• Slow worms also differ from snakes in that they have closable eyelids and tails, which drop off if they are trying to escape danger.

Male Female

• These are slow worm eggs

• Many babies• They can grow up to 50cm

• Diet is disgusting! • They eat worms, snakes and snails• But don’t bite people

• Slow worms can often be found in woodlands, pastures, heaths.

• Gardens can often provide suitable places for slow worms as well; compost heaps along with loose soil, rotting vegetation, logs and large flat stones provide ideal homes for them.

• Pieces of tin or plastic, or piles of stones can also provide ideal hiding places.

• Slow worms will burrow and hibernate underground from October to March.

• I like slow worms because they are not very common• They have nice patterns• They are interesting • And they freak my mum out, and she calls them disgusting