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In Los Angeles County, it was the Western fence lizard, followed by the western honey bee.

Much of the initial work by project scientists focused on common species such as fence lizards and live oaks that manage to prosper in regions slammed by the ugliest weather California has to offer.

But though some of them had received enough venom to kill five mice, alligator lizards and fence lizards showed no change at all.

In the yard of my rental, I have built multiple garden boxes, seeded them with native flora and scattered log piles among them for the fence lizards and wrens.

I saw great numbers of lizards here — alligator lizards and a couple Western fence lizards — plus a few rabbits and several nests of harvester ants.