A site about amphibians, reptiles, and other creepy crawlies
Posted in Amphibians, Conservation, Salamanders on May 20th, 2013
I had the pleasure of meeting some of the members of Hellbender Media recently at a film festival in Portland, Oregon. I noticed they had hellbenders on their t-shirts and stuffed hellbenders on their merchandise table. It turns out that the stuffed hellbenders weren’t for sale (much to my displeasure). Instead the stuffed salamanders were [...]
Posted in Amphibians, Salamanders on May 15th, 2013
I recently returned to my favorite US city, Portland, Oregon, for a visit and while I was there I of course had to visit my favorite city park, Tryon Creek State Natural Area. My hubby and I met up with my good friend the awesome Ranger Christal Florin and went for a hike and some [...]
Posted in Conservation, Education, Herpetology, Salamanders, Snakes on May 2nd, 2013
This story is a little out of the ordinary for us, since snakes are our normal specialty. After much help and convincing from The Wandering Herpetologist, we decided to make it into a story. We were in Hickman County, Tennessee on a cold rainy morning, we were pretty convinced that it was a dreadful day [...]
Posted in Amphibians, Caecilians, Frogs, Salamanders on Apr 22nd, 2013
Answer: 370 million years ago Most of you (64.71%) selected the correct answer of 370 million years ago. Some of you (8.82%) guessed too early for the 100,500 years ago answer and others (26.47%) guessed way too late for the 620 billion years ago answer (remember the Earth is only about 4.5 billions years old [...]
Posted in Amphibians, Salamanders on Apr 18th, 2013
After coming out of hibernation, Green Salamanders (Aneides aeneus) spend most of their time hiding in rock crevices. A Green was first found by me in the rock shown below in 2007 and she has had great fidelity for almost always being in one of the crevices in the upper left. And last year she [...]
Posted in Amphibians, Salamanders on Apr 13th, 2013
Here’s two pictures of a Green Salamander (Aneides aeneus) hatchling which came out of hibernation within the last few days. It had come out of it’s egg early in September, 2012. This was from one of about 30 Green Salamander broods I monitored in a western North Carolina state park last year.
Posted in Amphibians, Invertebrates, Salamanders on Apr 10th, 2013
Fun fact of the day: While doing research for state listed species here in Wisconsin I came across an interesting species of mussel known as the salamander mussel (Simpsonaias ambigua). Of course I had to know why this mussel has a herp in its name. It turns out that this state threatened and federal species of [...]
Posted in Amphibians, Salamanders on Apr 8th, 2013
Western North Carolina Green Salamanders (Aneides aeneus) are finally waking up after an extended cold period. In the state park where I monitor the Green population today I found four adults, two juveniles, two yearlings and one hatchling among ten rocks at a site where just a few days earlier I was finding nothing. Almost [...]
Posted in Amphibians, Salamanders on Mar 22nd, 2013
On April 9, 2011, while examining some rocks in a western North Carolina State Park and looking for Green Salamanders (Aneides aeneus) I came across a very light colored salamander which I immediately assumed to be a Seal Salamander, a common species and not of interest to me that day. But behind it was Green [...]
Posted in Amphibians, Conservation, Crocodilians, Education, Frogs, Herpetology, Lizards, Reptiles, Salamanders, Snakes, Turtles, Uncategorized on Mar 13th, 2013
Hello Wandering Herping Friends, Only two days remain for Earthshine Nature Programs’ first 2013 online fundraiser so please donate, share and post the below paragraph with anyone you like or anywhere you like to help us reach our goal–THANK YOU! “Earthshine Nature Programs is in the process of setting up a second nature education [...]
