It's nearly time for dinner, so I did not look up an exact reference,
but I *think* that the blue-tailed skink is the juvenile of the
five-lined skink -- or vice versa.

Anne Lurie
NE Raleigh

[Hey, I just quoted the thread below -- it's up to y'all to figure out
who said what!]

Dave Schulman wrote:

"Tom Gauldin" wrote in message
. ..
Along the same line of picking things up. . . Like everyone in NC, our
property had many blue tailed skinks.

I think the lizard you're referring to is what's known as the
"Five-lined skink" (Eumeces fasciatus). There's a photo of one at
http://coolsprings.org/skink.jpg; does that look like what you remember?
It's also been my experience that the little things can bite surprisingly
hard when they feel the need to.