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olivermoo.bsky.social
Gale should’ve known better than to wander near the mud pools! Many dangerous creatures burble beneath the surface with an appetite for anything~

Phenomenal art by @omegajuicebox.bsky.social again!!

Love how it turned out~
A skorg being captured by a blindworm hiding in a mudpool. The worm has removed his helmet and pinned his arms back while it absorbs his brain’s electricity. He’ll be fine. Probably.
July 1, 2025 at 2:45 PM
a-hedblom.bsky.social
#Naturelovers #Snake #Lizard #NaturePhotography #wildlife #WildlifePhotographer #Sweden #Hälsingland #Swedishnature
#kopparorm #kopparna
#slowworm #blindworm
Quite long slowworm!
August 20, 2025 at 11:15 AM
cheche300.bsky.social
i know everyones gonna look and go AHH SNEK! BUT not snek! this baby is a slow worm! IS NOT SNEK! its a lizard! a legless lizard! its baby 🥺🥺🥺
a picture of a slow worm, a legless lizard found natively in western europe. it has a similar appearance to a snake but it is most definitely not a snake The common slow-worm (Anguis fragilis) is a species of legless lizard native to western Eurasia. It is also called a deaf adder, blindworm, or regionally, a long-cripple, steelworm, and hazelworm. The "blind" in blind-worm refers to the lizard's small eyes, similar to a blindsnake (although the slow-worm's eyes are functional). The common slow worm, i.e. the species Anguis fragilis, is often called simply "slow-worm", though all species of the species complex comprising the genus Anguis are also called "slow-worms".
April 14, 2025 at 7:17 AM
swithuncooper.bsky.social
Nor show a blindworm how to blink
April 23, 2025 at 11:28 AM
fuchsfein.bsky.social
Here's a very young blindworm I saw today. I like these fellas, they look like snakes but they're really legless lizards.

Their scales have a golden brownish copper tone in the sunlight which looks great.
August 16, 2024 at 3:52 PM
omegajuicebox.bsky.social
alien mily redesign, big lovable blindworm that feeds off of your brain's electrical impulses
April 30, 2025 at 12:35 AM
oneoneoneone.bsky.social
instead of doing the silly Google proverbs thing you could just read Proverbial Ballade by Wendy Cope, which not only contains a lot of made-up proverbs but it's also a Ballade which is one of the most fun (and tricky) rhyme schemes to use in a poem
Proverbial Ballade by Wendy Cope Fine words won’t turn the icing pink; A wild rose has no employees; Who boils his socks will make them shrink; Who catches cold is sure to sneeze. Who has two legs must wash two knees; Who breaks the egg will find the yolk; Who locks his door will need his keys – So say I and so say the folk. You can’t shave with a tiddlywink, Nor make red wine from garden peas, Nor show a blindworm how to blink, Nor teach an old racoon Chinese. The juiciest orange feels the squeeze; Who spends his portion will be broke; Who has no milk can make no cheese – So say I and so say the folk. He makes no blot who has no ink, Nor gathers honey who keeps no bees. The ship that does not float will sink; Who’d travel far must cross the seas. Lone wolves are seldom seen in threes; A conker ne’er becomes an oak; Rome wasn’t built by chimpanzees – So say I and so say the folk. Envoi Dear friends! If adages like these Should seem banal, or just a joke, Remember fish don’t grow on trees - So say I and so say the folk.
April 23, 2025 at 1:34 PM
anniebrassey.bsky.social
"Why The Nightingale Sings By Night.
The blindworm was very angry at being thus wronged, and vowed that his faithless ally should be punished. Every night he goes prowling about that he may catch the nightingale on her perch and sting her."
Bexhill Chronicle 10.4.1920. #FairyTaleTuesday
February 25, 2025 at 12:12 PM
minzamondblume.bsky.social
today I wanted to start a reupload of my oldest entries in my Emmergens PnP roleplaying game based worldbuilding sketch books

first of all: the Crevice Blindworm, a nasty drake-like beast living in the mountains of Yamashu

I sketched this 7 years ago ^^
a page of my sketchbook: all kind of text blocks are surrounding the image of a semi-hanging worm with a broad mouth filled with tiny teeth, a blubbery necksack, two thin arms hanging down and a spicky, scalled head and backside. two small black eyes are watching out for prey
November 30, 2023 at 9:26 AM
astronoluke.bsky.social
It's truly feeling like spring!! 🌳🏡
Trees Blindworm
April 5, 2024 at 12:45 PM
d-a-d.bsky.social
common blindworm don't tariff on me
December 10, 2024 at 7:29 PM
rosenkranzarchiv.bsky.social
Cool morning. little blindworm run out of gas. Warmed him up a little. found him a sheltered place underneath a pile of leaves. @The_RHS
November 25, 2024 at 2:28 PM
astralalbrecht.bsky.social
We saw a snake today! Or technically a Blindschleiche, according to google translate it might be called slowworm or blindworm in english?

#Snake #Photograph
April 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM
racheldarker.bsky.social
Slow worm - Legless Lizard

Hurdles and hazards
For lowly legless lizard
Spends much time hiding.

Cunning not helpless
Will leave predator baffled
As tail unhitches.

#acoloradAyPRIL #gold #lizard #reptile #slowworm #alttext #haiku
The common slow-worm (Anguis fragilis) is a species of legless lizard native to western Eurasia. It is also called a deaf adder, blindworm, or regionally, a long-cripple, steelworm, and hazelworm. The "blind" in blind-worm refers to the lizard's small eyes, similar to a blindsnake (although the slow-worm's eyes are functional). The common slow worm, i.e. the species Anguis fragilis, is often called simply "slow-worm", though all species of the species complex comprising the genus Anguis are also called "slow-worms". Common slow worms are semifossorial (burrowing) lizards that spend much of their time hiding underneath objects. The skin of slow worms is smooth, with scales that do not overlap. Like many other lizards, they autotomize, meaning that they have the ability to shed their tails to escape predators. While the tail regrows, it does not reach its original length. In the UK, slow worms are commonly encountered in gardens and allotments, where they can be encouraged to enter and assist in the removal of pest insects by placing black plastic or providing places to shelter such as piles of logs, corrugated iron sheets or under tiles. On warm days, one or more slow worms can often be found underneath these heat collectors. The name "slowworm" is only contaminated by the word "slow". In Middle English, it was written "slowurm", from Old English "slāwyrm", where slā- means 'earthworm' or 'slowworm' and wyrm means "serpent, reptile". It is related to the Norwegian slo or Swedish ormslå, of same meaning.
April 22, 2025 at 6:22 PM
mythologybot.boodoo.co
A2332.6.1
Why blindworm
has no eyes.
August 2, 2024 at 3:44 AM
funereel.bsky.social
Losing my mind at how every common name for anguis fragilis in English is so so mean. Slow-worm, blindworm, long-cripple
April 11, 2025 at 10:53 PM
plesnercph.bsky.social
As I love languages, here is the slow worm in other languages:

Latin - Anguis fragilis - fragile snake
German - Blindschleiche - blind lizard
Dutch - Hazelworm - hazel worm
Swedish - Kopparödla - copper lizard
Danish & Norwegian - Stålorm - steel worm

English also uses deaf adder and blindworm
November 11, 2024 at 9:57 AM
heaeditorial.bsky.social
#stewalk - always great to meet new friends
Tiny brown frog on pebbled path Big brown caterpillar on a leaf Butterfly, mostly black with orange stripes, and white dots at the tips of its wings Blindworm on pebbled path
August 22, 2024 at 1:13 PM
shougoney.bsky.social
I am super scared of all the native spiders here but I do love jumping spiders and tarantulas (the latter I keep as pets too)
In all my life I've seen a single reptile in the wild here, which was a blindworm... This was like 25 years ago, I still cherish that moment xD
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October 18, 2023 at 8:53 AM
mononomoto.bsky.social
Aquel término describía la piel brillante del reptil durante su desplazamiento sinuoso. Sin embargo, el error se extendió, y también en inglés 🇬🇧 se utiliza la denominación /blindworm/ para referirse hoy a este animal de ojos pequeños.
May 13, 2025 at 6:30 AM
travisbrown.dev
I was looking up what specific kind of legless lizard this is and for some reason the list of UK names for it is just a pile of random ableist slurs? Why are they like this?
Wikipedia summary from Google: “The common slow-worm is a species of legless lizard native to western Eurasia. It is also called a deaf adder, blindworm, or regionally, a long-cripple, steelworm, and hazelworm.”
April 16, 2025 at 4:46 PM
englishwordbot.bsky.social
The word "blindworm" on a stylized background
July 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM