Field Herp Forum

Hey folks, I've never been to Arizona before. I'm coming in mid-late May to visit some friends and fish in northern Arizona. I want to do some herping and wanted some advice. I'm not looking for any specific spots, but general ideas. My three targets are sidewinders, shovelnose, and desert rosy boas...

Looks like you had a fun trip. I'm jealous of the green toads, I've found most every species in Texas I want to find after having lived here for eight years, but green toads continue to elude me. Not that I've really looked for them much. Your splendida is a screamer. That property is amazing and I'...

I released her in the middle of March at the end of a successful season. She did catch 4 snakes though. I managed to save 2 of them. The other two got converted into red tailed hawk.

CR

Andy, that's a massive rosy boa! Are you coming to the THS meet? Kids are getting big.

CR

I just saw the Wise County hybrid the other day. It's in a jar in the UTA collection. The animal was found in post oak savannah interspersed with patches of prairie. Neat looking snake.

CR

Excellent photography. Glad that you had a fun trip. Your photo of a "Desmognathus wrighti" is actually a salamander in the Desmognathus ochrophaeus complex called Desmognathus ocoee or orestes, depending on how far North you were. Wrighti has herringbone patterns down the back.

Corey Roelke

Yeah, don't get me wrong, I do agree we need to just flat get rid of them and outlaw them. That's never going to happen in Texas. During the gassing hearing, one very expressive individual, who was well spoken, actually said, verbatim, "If the State of Texas puts the welfare of some bug (referencing...

Come out and herp Texas anywhere west of Fort Worth. Atrox are one of the most common snakes. I herp one of the most easily accessible den areas that has been hit hard by collectors for roundups (it's less than an hour away from Sweetwater) and without trying usually find somewhere between 10-20 in ...

People need to stop worrying about roundups so much. I was part of a hearing in Texas gathering input on making gassing illegal. Some of the people there supporting roundups lamented how in the 1970's in Texas, there were about 50 roundups. Now there are 7 and every one but Sweetwater has declining ...

Fall's a good time to find them there, isn't it? That's cool you found a horridus at that spot. It's such a nice area given what surrounds it. One other cool thing I don't know whether you've seen there yet are Hypsiglena. I've found three of them there. It really is a good mix of Western and Easter...