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MpSeph
Cow Field Creature



Registered: 06/17/19
Posts: 3,283
Loc: Gulf Coast USA
Last seen: 6 months, 22 days
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I Learned Growing Up That Most Venomous Snakes Have A Triangular Shaped Head & Most Non Venomous Snakes Have More Of An Oval Shaped Head. There Are Exceptions Though, A Coral Snake Has An Oval Shaped Head, For Those I Always Used The "Black To Yellow, Kill A Fellow, Red To Black, Put It Back" Saying.
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MentalPariah
Pariah of my mind


Registered: 03/18/18
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Re: Herping and foraging [Re: MpSeph]
#27324296 - 05/26/21 08:06 PM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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MpSeph said: I Learned Growing Up That Most Venomous Snakes Have A Triangular Shaped Head & Most Non Venomous Snakes Have More Of An Oval Shaped Head. There Are Exceptions Though, A Coral Snake Has An Oval Shaped Head, For Those I Always Used The "Black To Yellow, Kill A Fellow, Red To Black, Put It Back" Saying.
These are really good guidelines actually! As with mushrooms though, don't go fucking with snakes you can't identify hahaha
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MpSeph
Cow Field Creature



Registered: 06/17/19
Posts: 3,283
Loc: Gulf Coast USA
Last seen: 6 months, 22 days
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Yeah The Only Ones I Can Identify By Looking At (That Are Found In Texas) Are Coppers, Water Moccasins, Rattles, Water Snakes, Garters, Rats & Stuff Like That.
The Only Ones Ill Try & Catch Are The Garters But They're Always Too Damn Fast.
I Used To Catch All Kinds Of Water Snakes Some Years Back But Sometimes They Can Look Just Like A Moccasin & Vice Versa, I've Had A Couple Really Close Calls So I Don't Mess With Them Anymore.
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Icyurmt
Strange



Registered: 04/02/20
Posts: 1,628
Loc: 5a
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Re: Herping and foraging [Re: MpSeph]
#27326838 - 05/28/21 02:52 PM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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Still no ovoids but I did come across a dead snapper I believe (think it was swept down a nearby waterfall) and a napping newborn fawn while rummaging through some knotweed today.
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MentalPariah
Pariah of my mind


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Re: Herping and foraging [Re: Icyurmt]
#27326940 - 05/28/21 04:38 PM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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Awww cute little fawn!!! Damn shame about the snapping turtle... Circle of life though
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Moria841



Registered: 07/02/18
Posts: 4,935
Loc: NJ
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I saw a luna moth out last night, couldn't get any photos because it was too dark, but damn those things are cool af.
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evlyshrooms
willi weilii



Registered: 08/08/19
Posts: 2,275
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Re: Herping and foraging [Re: Moria841]
#27326998 - 05/28/21 05:37 PM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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Not a luna moth but he was a fatty. Heard this guy scurrying around. Looked like his wings were limp and couldnโt fly.
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Icyurmt
Strange



Registered: 04/02/20
Posts: 1,628
Loc: 5a
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Thatโs a big boy, looks like it may have only recently emerged from its cocoon the way its wings are folded.
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raffib128
Stranger


Registered: 08/05/20
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Loc: Vermont
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If you post it to inaturalist, evly, it will get identified for sure. Awesome find!
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RenegadeMycologist
On the case



Registered: 12/05/20
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evlyshrooms said: Not a luna moth but he was a fatty. Heard this guy scurrying around. Looked like his wings were limp and couldnโt fly.

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RenegadeMycologist
On the case



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And RIP to lcyurmt turtle
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Icyurmt
Strange



Registered: 04/02/20
Posts: 1,628
Loc: 5a
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Rather bitey milk snake (I think) and a toad from todayโs walk

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Shroomhunts
Hunter Gatherer



Registered: 05/07/18
Posts: 2,933
Loc: PA
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Re: Herping and foraging [Re: Icyurmt]
#27331643 - 06/01/21 04:45 PM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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Love the milk snake, they display many different patterns and colors here, often found around abandoned steel mills and large rock faces.
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Doc9151
Mycologist



Registered: 02/23/17
Posts: 13,753
Loc: Gulf Coast USA
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Re: Herping and foraging [Re: MpSeph]
#27332689 - 06/02/21 01:23 PM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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evlyshrooms said: Not a luna moth but he was a fatty. Heard this guy scurrying around. Looked like his wings were limp and couldnโt fly.

I think its called a tussock moth or something like that.
Lunar moths are one of my favorite moths.
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MpSeph said: I Learned Growing Up That Most Venomous Snakes Have A Triangular Shaped Head & Most Non Venomous Snakes Have More Of An Oval Shaped Head. There Are Exceptions Though, A Coral Snake Has An Oval Shaped Head, For Those I Always Used The "Black To Yellow, Kill A Fellow, Red To Black, Put It Back" Saying.
Unfortunately, many people confuse snakes like hognose and banded water snakes as venomous because they will flatten their heads to mimic venomous snakes. The banded water snakes is easy to differentiate from the moccasins by its tail, water snakes have long thin tapering tails white a moccasin has a thick bodied shorter tail.
As for the rhyme for coral vs king snakes, I learned " black and yellow kill a fellow, red and blacks good for Jack.
Edit: word correction, meant tapering but posted as tampering.
Edited by Doc9151 (06/02/21 01:25 PM)
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bloodycarcass
Stranger Danger



Registered: 12/16/13
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Re: Herping and foraging [Re: Doc9151]
#27333727 - 06/03/21 10:34 AM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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Not sure what this guy is but was a cool golden color.
Seen on the job site in Newnan cleaning up some torando damage.
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seldom seen
April Fool



Registered: 11/03/07
Posts: 1,033
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Niice, Brown snake aka DeKey's I believe.
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Icyurmt
Strange



Registered: 04/02/20
Posts: 1,628
Loc: 5a
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Hung out with a baby woodchuck today while checking over a dung heap; gave him head scratches for Shroomhunts and in the process karma shone its light right on some pans and a snake skin, both within arms reach.. I think Iโm starting to understand how Shroomhunts manages such massive ovoid hauls.. baby animal head scratches = 
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schmutzen
King of the side-pins



Registered: 12/03/02
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Re: Herping and foraging [Re: Icyurmt] 1
#27335435 - 06/04/21 03:13 PM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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This little feller was inside a dead Ash tree I took down. He was moved out of the way and given head scritchies before mumma came by to scoop em up. Would have loved to keep him as a party squirrel, teach him how to drink beer and waterski.

Found these shortly afterwards, I believe in the connection! 
Not sure what this guy was but it was a chilly day so he wasn't very bitey.
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Icyurmt
Strange



Registered: 04/02/20
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Loc: 5a
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Re: Herping and foraging [Re: schmutzen] 1
#27335492 - 06/04/21 04:29 PM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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Baby squirrels are the cutest of the forest creatures hands down! I would have been pretty darn tempted to take that lil guy home with me.. Nice score too with those morels
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MentalPariah
Pariah of my mind


Registered: 03/18/18
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Re: Herping and foraging [Re: Icyurmt] 1
#27337650 - 06/06/21 02:41 PM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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Took the kids fishing and found this spiny softshell in the mud!!
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