Links don't work

 

Links are working now, hopefully he's waiting for the SHB to land and is eating them.

 

He might be eating a bee or two. But then he might be eating a wax moth or hive beetle of two. Even an ant or two for dessert. The point is, just leave him alone and watch his antics. The bee or two he does eat will not cause a colony collapse. TED

 

I cannot see your links, however, I do have a few lizards in my yard that I know snack on bees. I have seen them with bees in their mouths!! I want to capture and kill, but I know that they must snack on other unwanted critters in my yard as well.

 

http://s1081.photobucket.com/albums/j354/slwethrs/

maybe the pictures can be viewed with this link.

 

The previous links work for me.
I have some brush locations and the lizard population increases after the 1st year +
You "lazy" lizard looks well fed.
It appears to be some species of skink.
I see a lot of well fed fence lizards on and around the hives.

 

Fence lizards...they're taking over at my house. We have an open-air garage on the back of the house that they've invaded it. You wouldn't think that lizard poop would be much of a bother....wrong!!! Stepping out onto the back stoop and there's 2 or 3 piles...grrrrrr. Matter of fact, I killed a 2-foot timber rattler in the garage a few weeks ago, I figure it was probably hunting lizards. They all see well fed and somewhat fearless. It's interesting that once we became "catless" for the first time in 20 years the lizards and snakes started moving in...makes sense. I figure they eat plenty of bugs and if they get a bee or three it's no big problem.

I agree that the hive-lizard appears to be a skink...we have lots of 5-lined skinks along with the fence lizards...they're healthy, too.

Ed

 

I have a couple that live on my hives as well, but not the brown skinks... I have not seen them take a bee, and really don't think the ones that I have are. I have a couple of brown skinks around here about the length of your foot, that I wouldn't want on my hives, but these little green lizards living on my hives are neat to watch.

 

Thanks for all the responses. Guess I won't worry about him too much and be glad he is far enough from the house not to leave any presents for me to step in.

 

Your pictures look like Skinks, to me.