Just as with grasshoppers and beetles, spiders and preying mantises, geckoes and butterflies, I see less skinks these days, and this concerns me. It is another group of fauna that appear to me to be in far lesser numbers than years past, although this is a subjective observation of mine. What’s going on in addition to pesticide usage? I read Rachel Carson’s ‘Silent Spring’ in the late ‘60’s, while still a boy, and she foretold what we have an ominous taste of these days.