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Subfinder
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Black rat snakes are docile. The thinner look-a-like, the eastern black racer, is aggressive and fast. Will strike to defend itself. Never had a rat snake try to strike at all.
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Allium
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Re: Herping and foraging [Re: Subfinder] 1
#27074596 - 12/06/20 05:15 AM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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I had to bring this back!
I caught this guy while out on my fishing/mushroom hunting excursion, but not before finding some nice oysters in one of my yearly patches 


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bloodycarcass
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Re: Herping and foraging [Re: Allium]
#27074635 - 12/06/20 05:54 AM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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Allium said: I had to bring this back!
I caught this guy while out on my fishing/mushroom hunting excursion, but not before finding some nice oysters in one of my yearly patches 



Thats a good meal. Catfish and oysters!!
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Allium
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Yes, but I threw back the cat, too small, hehe
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SameMould
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Re: Herping and foraging [Re: Allium] 1
#27257912 - 03/17/21 06:23 PM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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Recent snake encounters from south-west Vic
tiger snake 
lowland copperhead 
white-lipped snake
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MpSeph
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Re: Herping and foraging [Re: SameMould]
#27258184 - 03/17/21 10:26 PM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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Hell Yeah, Nice Pics
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MentalPariah
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Re: Herping and foraging [Re: MpSeph]
#27258250 - 03/18/21 12:33 AM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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Maaaannnnn to be honest I kinda forgot I had this thread hahaha
Those are damn gorgeous snakes Same!!!!
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MentalPariah
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These are from this past Monday, took a much needed personal day and took the fam to the mountains. First time I have ever seen or touched an eastern red newt! Pretty neat holding something so deadly yet so beautiful.
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Shroomhunts
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Those orange newts can be crazy vibrant sometimes the ones in the mountains here are the color of traffic cones. I'll have to get a pic next time I see em.
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Here’s one I spotted last fall. They sure do stand out!
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Allium
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MentalPariah said: Maaaannnnn to be honest I kinda forgot I had this thread hahaha
Those are damn gorgeous snakes Same!!!!

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MentalPariah said: These are from this past Monday, took a much needed personal day and took the fam to the mountains. First time I have ever seen or touched an eastern red newt! Pretty neat holding something so deadly yet so beautiful.

I love newts!
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Re: Herping and foraging [Re: Allium]
#27260123 - 03/19/21 09:27 AM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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Awesome thread...speaking of newts, saw this guy right near one of my oyster spots.

Always loved reptiles and amphibians, still have yet to see a green snake, they're in my area just yet to find one, random life goal.
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Re: Herping and foraging [Re: Allium]
#27260138 - 03/19/21 09:38 AM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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Here's a Spring Salamander (Gyrinophilus porphyriticus). Not the best shot, but interesting as it has lost it's tail, poor little critter. These things are pretty neat.
I like to take a powerful flashlight and hunt mountain streams at night when I'm camping. I see lots of fish, larval salamanders, and various Caddisfly larvae (order Trichoptera). The fish are often docile; it's possible to catch them with your hands in the smaller pools.
This thread is great!
Edit: I neglected to mention this photo was taken in September of last year.
Edited by raffib128 (03/19/21 10:10 AM)
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RenegadeMycologist
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Re: Herping and foraging [Re: raffib128]
#27260147 - 03/19/21 09:42 AM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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Fire salamander in my backyard

...and this one somewhere in the woods
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Are those recent pics, renegade? I'm probably a month or so from my first warm spring rains, but we have a similar-looking species here in Vermont called the Spotted Salamander (Ambystoma maculatum). I'll try to snag some pics.
Interestingly, the Spotted Salamander is the only known vertebrate to photosynthesize; an algae acts as a symbiont to the eggs. Wikipedia words it better:
"Its embryos have been found to have symbiotic algae living inside them,[3] the only known example of vertebrate cells hosting an endosymbiont microbe (unless mitochondria are considered)."
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Re: Herping and foraging [Re: raffib128]
#27260353 - 03/19/21 12:00 PM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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raffib128 said: Are those recent pics, renegade?
Not really, I took them back in October, but since somebody woke this thread just now, I thought to share them. They were all over the place during the autumn/winter, and mating ritual was very interesting to observe.
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raffib128 said: Interestingly, the Spotted Salamander is the only known vertebrate to photosynthesize; an algae acts as a symbiont to the eggs. Wikipedia words it better:
"Its embryos have been found to have symbiotic algae living inside them,[3] the only known example of vertebrate cells hosting an endosymbiont microbe (unless mitochondria are considered)."
That's something I certainly didn't know, very interesting.
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Any of you ever encountered a hellbender, I have been looking for them for years with no luck.
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SameMould
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I'm loving all these salamander pics. For some reason we have no native species in Australia. They wouldn't enjoy sharing the same habitat as the platypus. I'm lucky to live within walking distance of them
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Shroomhunts
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Re: Herping and foraging [Re: SameMould]
#27261018 - 03/19/21 08:13 PM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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Would love to see a platypus in the wild they are just so odd, its like God got really stoned and was like fuck it ima make a weird ass beaver duck hybrid
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MentalPariah
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Re: Herping and foraging [Re: SameMould]
#27261098 - 03/19/21 09:18 PM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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SameMould said: I'm loving all these salamander pics. For some reason we have no native species in Australia. They wouldn't enjoy sharing the same habitat as the platypus. I'm lucky to live within walking distance of them

I forget sometimes these fuckers are real! My ultimate bucket list experience is to go herping in australia or just looking for random shit there I'd only see in a zoo here.
Man you guys are killin this thread again!! I expect to see alot of shit this season from you guys now that spring is here!!!
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