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For the last 4 years, we have been keeping a bunch of fence lizards as pets. They are actualy running wild all around our place. We improve their habitats, give them "pet" names and take about a zillion pix of them. [like our "fierce" looking MICRO below]

Yesterday we caught a rough green snake in a tree nearby, relocated it 200' away..... and panicked..... are any of our "babies" missing ?????

We started to read on this snakes, and it looks like we would like to encourage them to stay....as long as they limit their diet to insects. We have more spiders and crickets than we can use.

Is there ANY POSSIBILITY that a rough green snake will eat a lizard, as long as they have other succulent & abundant food available?

One, I wouldn't worry about the Rough Greens eating the lizards. The are insectivorous. Could they or would they eat a lizard....don't know, haven't asked them.

But also you might realize that relocating the snake that closely isn't going to do a lot of good. It'll come right back. And relocating it further at this time of year might very well kill it if it has to find a den for the winter and can't in it's new territory.
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Sonya

Thanks for the reply.

I wouldn't worry too much for the snake. We moved it in what looks to us like a much better location: a real "jungle", mix of trees, bushes, high weeds, logs. And, the temperatures are still very mild where we are. More insects that it can eat.
It won't come back. We moved it about 300', pretty rough terrain, plenty of obstacles between it & our pets.

Next one we find, we may try to dangle a baby lizard & a cricket near its head and see which one it chooses.
In the meantime, we will have to assume the worse (a lot of crickets are bigger than some of our lizards - and maybe smarter).

It looks like an interesting snake and we will try to know better the next one we find.
I am not a spider lover, and we have a lot of what someone called "corn spiders". We may think about an army of green snakes to the rescue.