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- October 17th, 2018, 12:45 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: California Waters: Part 5 with Giant Garters, Oregon Spotted Frogs, and the future of California's herps
- Replies: 12
- Views: 27840
Re: California Waters
Okay, Jonathan, That article is first class. :thumb: :thumb: Without knowing exactly where you were, you took us along and succinctly explained the plight of the two primary amphibs. I know euthanizing individual invasives is futile and probably only makes a conservationist feel righteous, but do yo...
- October 13th, 2018, 6:43 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: U.S. field guides
- Replies: 13
- Views: 22655
Re: U.S. field guides
I preordered the latest and have used it since it came out. The newest has the most up-to-date taxonomy accepted by CNAH and SSAR, and some more real photos mixed in the text, so it is pretty good. I've been using that series since the 1958 edition and each release gets better. My issue was with a f...
- October 13th, 2018, 5:52 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: U.S. field guides
- Replies: 13
- Views: 22655
Re: U.S. field guides
Another vote for the Peterson Guide for the East, especially in the field. I'm not as pleased with the newest edition because he must have done range maps from preserved specimens only. There are several incidents of minor range differences with our own data base. Still it's the most comprehensive a...
- October 7th, 2018, 5:24 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: double post - ignore
- Replies: 0
- Views: 13845
double post - ignore
double post for some reason????
- October 7th, 2018, 5:24 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Man dies from seasnake bite
- Replies: 2
- Views: 14566
- September 28th, 2018, 6:02 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Range extensions in Marin?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 34801
Re: Range extensions in Marin?
OP (I can't bring myself to call you "Kook" :lol: :lol: ) Documenting range extensions is a really noble cause and many of us encourage you. Good on you. :thumb: Looking back at 50+ years of field guides, the range maps generally get better and better and drift away from political boundari...
- September 21st, 2018, 4:19 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: The East Coast Turtles of LA County
- Replies: 7
- Views: 17262
Re: The East Coast Turtles of LA County
Quick shot Jonathan: Let me guess. This was a public park?? 1 Yellow Belly Slider ( Trachemys scripta scripta ) 2 Yellow Belly Slider ( Trachemys scripta scripta ) 3 Red-eared slider ( Trachemys scripta elegans ) 4 Red-eared slider ( Trachemys scripta elegans ) (often dark when old) 5 Red-eared slid...
- September 20th, 2018, 2:06 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Baby rattlesnakes basking at their den (Video)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9078
Re: Baby rattlesnakes basking at thier den (Video)
Excellent....
Finding a den first is special. Your not being very intrusive was more so...
Finish was the best.
RESPECT PROTECT PRESERVE
- September 4th, 2018, 4:06 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: trip report Corsica 2018
- Replies: 7
- Views: 16346
Re: trip report Corsica 2018
That is some awesome habitat, Jeroen.
I saw the stream and moss covered trees. Were the salamander areas as moist as our southern Appalachians?
Thanks for that one!
I saw the stream and moss covered trees. Were the salamander areas as moist as our southern Appalachians?
Thanks for that one!
- September 2nd, 2018, 9:23 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Black/Yellow Rat Snake Intergrade?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5150
Re: Black/Yellow Rat Snake Intergrade?
That's typical of the yellow/black variant integration area of the Eastern Ratsnake (Pantherophis alleghaniensis). Go south or to the coast, they tend to lighten to a light green. Go inland and by Raleigh or north by Virginia and they're already pretty black.
- September 2nd, 2018, 7:45 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: ANF in fall
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4394
Re: ANF in fall
PM sent Mike.
- August 31st, 2018, 5:12 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Nice time back in Oregon
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8767
Re: Nice time back in Oregon
Good post, Jonathan. That was a great welcome home bunch of outings!! Are you going to be back in the states now? Of course, the kid pics are always the best to me. This one was special because it was both a nice-sized adult and in an area I'd already searched hard twice but kept coming back because...
- August 28th, 2018, 11:10 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Law Enforcement Showed Up
- Replies: 38
- Views: 31758
Re: Law Enforcement Showed Up
Now that we all do have some agreement on some issues (to license or not), and we've scaled down confrontations, I just am curious how other folks in the US (and elsewhere) view confrontation with wildlife LEOs. (FD, tell your father "semper fi" for me.) . My opinion seems to be at odds wi...
- August 27th, 2018, 8:18 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Arizona 2018: Good times
- Replies: 16
- Views: 16217
Re: Arizona 2018: Good times
After thought.
One of the strangest southern mammals to us is the Mexican long-tongued bat (Choeronycteris mexicana).
One of the strangest southern mammals to us is the Mexican long-tongued bat (Choeronycteris mexicana).
- August 27th, 2018, 8:09 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Arizona 2018: Good times
- Replies: 16
- Views: 16217
Re: Arizona 2018: Good times
That's great.
Seeing a whole troop of Coatis foraging in the Chiricahuas was a special treat for my wife and I last year.
We heard them coming before we saw them.
Seeing a whole troop of Coatis foraging in the Chiricahuas was a special treat for my wife and I last year.
We heard them coming before we saw them.
- August 27th, 2018, 5:56 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Arizona 2018: Good times
- Replies: 16
- Views: 16217
Re: Arizona 2018: Good times
Good stuff, Craig.
Thanks for that post.
AZ, especially on the southern border, has always been magic to me, especially all the animals that primarily range from further south.
Of course, to us easterners, every herp, bird, and some mammals are species we don't see back here.
Thanks for that post.
AZ, especially on the southern border, has always been magic to me, especially all the animals that primarily range from further south.
Of course, to us easterners, every herp, bird, and some mammals are species we don't see back here.
- August 23rd, 2018, 10:02 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Law Enforcement Showed Up
- Replies: 38
- Views: 31758
Re: Law Enforcement Showed Up
Just an afterthought on this issue: Many of us may choose to speed through states that do not have traffic ticket reciprocity like Georgia, Massachusetts, Michigan, Tennessee, and Wisconsin, knowing that we may pay a stiff fine for a speeding ticket, but not get points assessed to our driver’s licen...
- August 22nd, 2018, 7:27 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Law Enforcement Showed Up
- Replies: 38
- Views: 31758
Re: Law Enforcement Showed Up
Lots of good stuff. I side with Jimi's statements linking this to fishing, even catch and release. It's always best to get a license. The concept in most states is that fish and game (and even non-game) belong to all the people in the state. To do anything with those resources, you follow management...
- August 14th, 2018, 11:05 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Alien Lizard Identification Needed
- Replies: 13
- Views: 10510
Re: Alien Lizard Identification Needed
Whole post is great. :lol: :lol: I think as long as there have been herpers, there have been prank, fake herps! Every time I hear of one left on a popular herping area I smile. Interesting subset of this is when a neighborhood boy, a friend of my son, +25 years ago, threw a rubber snake up in a tree...
- August 11th, 2018, 4:39 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Spotted salamander (Ambystoma maculatum) progression from la
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9913
Re: Spotted salamander (Ambystoma maculatum) progression fro
Thanks, Tamara,
Hope you and Ray are doing great, especially after the past few years of active weather systems.
Now you need to to do a similar progression of Rainbow Snakes!
Hope you and Ray are doing great, especially after the past few years of active weather systems.
Now you need to to do a similar progression of Rainbow Snakes!
- August 6th, 2018, 7:37 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Spotted salamander (Ambystoma maculatum) progression from la
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9913
Re: Spotted salamander (Ambystoma maculatum) progression fro
Thanks Justin,
Hope all is well with you and yours.
Hope all is well with you and yours.
I do that allot with sun!I stared at each photo for a long time.
- August 5th, 2018, 4:52 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Spotted salamander (Ambystoma maculatum) progression from la
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9913
Re: Spotted salamander (Ambystoma maculatum) progression fro
FH, Thanks B. I hope it's useful to someone in the field. Carl, Thanks. I was inspired to do these little projects from your Pseudotriton larvae paper that was such a help to me defining P. ruber from P. montanus larvae. Hey Josh, Hope all is going well on your side of the mountains. I'm going to ma...
- August 4th, 2018, 5:41 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Back to Borneo, part 3: Lowlands of Sabah
- Replies: 9
- Views: 13058
Re: Back to Borneo, part 3: Lowlands of Sabah
Another good one.
Great comments.
The "two frogs" pic was amazing.
Great comments.
The "two frogs" pic was amazing.
- August 2nd, 2018, 12:36 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Back to Borneo, part 2: Mulu National Park
- Replies: 12
- Views: 11738
Re: Back to Borneo, part 2: Mulu National Park
Wow...... Just Wow
Love the short scripts with the pics.
I think I have some parchute flies that look like that in my fly fishing vest!!!
Love the short scripts with the pics.
Planthopper/troll doll hybrid
I think I have some parchute flies that look like that in my fly fishing vest!!!
- August 1st, 2018, 9:36 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Spotted salamander (Ambystoma maculatum) progression from la
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9913
Spotted salamander (Ambystoma maculatum) progression from la
Spotted salamander ( Ambystoma maculatum ) progression from larvae to adult. If this can help in field identification, this is another one of those “for what it’s worth” posts for anyone interested, or would like to add more. This is similar to “Marbled salamander ( Ambystoma opacum ) progression fr...
- July 28th, 2018, 8:34 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Borneo Herping Trip June/July 2018 (lots of pics!)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7296
Re: Borneo Herping Trip June/July 2018
As always... first class
Thanks for posting
Thanks for posting
- July 14th, 2018, 7:35 pm
- Forum: Invertebrate Forum
- Topic: black lighting
- Replies: 4
- Views: 20150
Re: black lighting
Thanks for this post.
That's absolutely spectacular, Gordon
You could title the pic with the female Dobson Fly and the beetles "Jaws"...
That's absolutely spectacular, Gordon
You could title the pic with the female Dobson Fly and the beetles "Jaws"...
- July 10th, 2018, 2:18 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: rarest snake in Northeastern US?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6472
Re: rarest snake in Northeastern US?
I'd vote for the South Florida Rainbow Snake (Farancia erytrogramma seminola) . Last one seen in the field was 1952. Florida State Museum says it may be extinct. Just a note about the word "rare". To some it means rarely found by herpers. To some it means in need of protection because popu...
- July 10th, 2018, 6:32 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Smoky Mountain Snakes
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6294
Re: Smoky Mountain Snakes
Spend a 1/2 day Trout fishing and you'll likely see Waters and Queens.
- July 5th, 2018, 1:09 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Smoky Mountain Snakes
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6294
Re: Smoky Mountain Snakes
Have any of you had much luck finding snakes in the smoky mountains? I'm assuming you mean the GSMNP. We've regularly found Waters, Queens, Ringnecks, black Gray Ratsnakes, Garters, Copperheads, and an occasional Eastern Milk, Worm Snake, Timbers, and Brown Snake inside the park, but your probabili...
- July 2nd, 2018, 2:33 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: ... florida iguanas ...4 the crockpot ...
- Replies: 3
- Views: 13731
Re: ... florida iguanas ...4 the crockpot ...
I'm surprized it took this long for the news to catch it.
It's common place in latin america.
PS
The meat is really good, if prepared well.
PPS
The way I always prepared them was to tell them "calm down, this isn't going to hurt."
It's common place in latin america.
PS
The meat is really good, if prepared well.
PPS
The way I always prepared them was to tell them "calm down, this isn't going to hurt."
- June 30th, 2018, 5:24 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Rainbow Snake
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6321
Re: Rainbow Snake
Congrats, Zach.
Alweays a special find nowadays.
Alweays a special find nowadays.
- June 26th, 2018, 6:37 am
- Forum: Herpetoculture Forum
- Topic: Holtville locality Cal king
- Replies: 6
- Views: 23489
Re: Holtville locality Cal king
Thanks. It's really nice to see the incidence of locality breeders may be on its way back. Locality breeders seem to be generally more knowledgable. I've never been so disappointed at deli cup shows in the past 5 years with the overwhelming amount of ball Pythons coupled with the general feeling tha...
- June 26th, 2018, 6:29 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Early Summer Herping - Ontario, Appalachians, Illinois
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9049
Re: Early Summer Herping - Ontario, Appalachians, Illinois
Lots of good stuff, Ananth.
- June 26th, 2018, 6:25 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: I wasn't convinced this was possible [Graphic]
- Replies: 27
- Views: 37807
Re: I wasn't convinced this was possible [Graphic]
Bryan, Headland and Greene's paper ( http://www.pnas.org/content/108/52/E1470 ) is fascinating. Maybe I missed it in the paper, but they couldn’t address a member of the Agta folks just vanishing. It seems probable that when a community member just disappears, it may well have been a predation incid...
- June 23rd, 2018, 2:44 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Bullfrog call causing ripples in the water
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5629
Re: Bullfrog call causing ripples in the water
Come on, Michael, that's a male alligator booming!!
Seriously, I don't think I've ever seen that in a Bullfrog... Very good...
Seriously, I don't think I've ever seen that in a Bullfrog... Very good...
- June 22nd, 2018, 5:52 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Moloch, Morelia and more, the Red Centre, Aus.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 11761
- June 20th, 2018, 4:00 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: ...good on the poe-poe ...
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5984
- June 20th, 2018, 3:57 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Road cruising Roanoke for Timbers
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7039
Re: Road cruising Roanoke for Timbers
This is certainly the type of behavior you don't regularly expect from average law enforcement.
I sent an email "ATABOY" to the Roanoke Police Department.
If you would like to do so as a gesture of support, here's the email:
[email protected]
I sent an email "ATABOY" to the Roanoke Police Department.
If you would like to do so as a gesture of support, here's the email:
[email protected]
- June 19th, 2018, 6:18 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: I wasn't convinced this was possible [Graphic]
- Replies: 27
- Views: 37807
Re: I wasn't convinced this was possible [Graphic]
I’ve seen many hoaxes but this one looks authentic.
If you ever travel to SE Asia you’ll appreciate that the average sizes and statures of these good folks are dramatically different than European and northern Asian decedents.
If you ever travel to SE Asia you’ll appreciate that the average sizes and statures of these good folks are dramatically different than European and northern Asian decedents.
- June 19th, 2018, 5:34 am
- Forum: Herpetoculture Forum
- Topic: Is a supertank possible?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 39308
Re: Is a supertank possible?
Jimi I like a drain and a sump. More years ago than I care to mention, I made extremely low maintenance, low cost system for a small, indoor turtle pond with 3 screened overflow drains (for level control and triple redundancy for blockage) and one bottom drain for total draining, if necessary. The u...
- June 12th, 2018, 8:32 am
- Forum: Herpetoculture Forum
- Topic: Is a supertank possible?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 39308
Re: Is a supertank possible?
I think with much thought and consideration, this sounds like a great project. Good luck with it. . . . . As an aside: Chris And of course, don't put lizards which eat other lizards, with other lizards you want to keep more than a few days! :lol: :lol: :lol: Old guy story; quit reading while you can...
- June 2nd, 2018, 4:03 pm
- Forum: Herpetoculture Forum
- Topic: Tips for cleaning snake cages
- Replies: 20
- Views: 33770
Re: Tips for cleaning snake cages
intesting stuff, thanks.
- June 2nd, 2018, 4:01 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: ... ancient hairy reptile ... oh my
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6340
Re: ... ancient hairy reptile ... oh my
Now that makes me wonder if they find agatized Ents, like a petrified Ent forest.They like our big trees.
- June 2nd, 2018, 10:59 am
- Forum: Herpetoculture Forum
- Topic: Tips for cleaning snake cages
- Replies: 20
- Views: 33770
Re: Tips for cleaning snake cages
Anyone have any strong oppinions on "nolvasan s" (chlorhexidine diacetate) when used as directed as a cage surface disinfectant?
- May 30th, 2018, 7:35 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: ... ancient hairy reptile ... oh my
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6340
Re: ... ancient hairy reptile ... oh my
dat tricky debil b try'n 2 fool us agin
Really a neat find.
I'm waiting for paleontologists to find Sasquatch tracks in that same area!
- May 29th, 2018, 6:24 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: The Mystery of the granted green Pseudacris
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8465
Re: The Mystery of the granted green Pseudacris
Though these two reads are about H. (A.) regilla , there’s a high probability A. sierra does the same. Someone with access to JSTOR may have more. “Previous investigators have generally assumed that the green and brown body colors represent a “fixed” polymorphism and that seasonal changes in the pro...
- May 29th, 2018, 5:58 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Costa Rica the pacific coast from Panama to Nicaragua!
- Replies: 16
- Views: 18754
Re: Costa Rica the pacific coast from Panama to Nicaragua!
Wonderful post... Took us right along with you.... Too many highlights to mention.
The real question is did you have the lucky knife with you?
The real question is did you have the lucky knife with you?
- May 27th, 2018, 2:57 pm
- Forum: Herpetoculture Forum
- Topic: Tips for cleaning snake cages
- Replies: 20
- Views: 33770
Re: Tips for cleaning snake cages
The ozonater sounds good, Bryan, and I'm asking out of ignorance, but isn't 03 possibly harmful to pets and humans?
- May 27th, 2018, 5:50 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: The Mystery of the granted green Pseudacris
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8465
Re: The Mystery of the granted green Pseudacris
Here's the more specific point to my question... the green treefrogs look dark green when they're flipped and when they warm up, they're still green. Just a lighter/brighter shade of green. Green frogs don't ever look tan or gray or red. (however there are multi colored gray frogs that display gree...