Slow worms feed on all sorts of invertebrates: slugs, snails, spiders, insects and worms. They like tussocky grass and woodland edge habitat. They also need something to hide under like a big stone or some logs plus a sunny spot for occasional basking. If you have a mature garden and a compost heap there will be lots of food for them.
But if you have a cat, any visiting slow worms will soon be killed.
Photo: Simon Dicker
The fact that it can shed its tail as a defence mechanism and has eyelids so that it can blink, show that it is a lizard rather than a snake, - although it doesn't have any legs, which makes people think it is a snake.
Anyway it is quite harmless to humans.
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