As a herping youngster in New England, I eventually found several eastern milk snakes. On my first trip to the New Jersey Pine Barrens with my mentor, Gordy Johnston, I had seen several Coastal Plains milk snakes Asa Pittman’s, an at erstwhile dealer. But a drawing I saw of the southeastern scarlet kingsnake, (then Lampropeltis […]
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Apr 16
Apr 16
Creating space for local newts in your own garden
UK herp lovers are encouraged to create wildlife ponds to shelter newts. From Express & Echo: The Smooth Newt is the species most commonly encountered in garden ponds and we can all do our bit to help them, as Dr Wilkinson explains. “Everyone can help by having a small, or large garden pond populated by […]
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Herp Photo of the Day: Speckled rattlesnake
Speckles are always better than freckles. Just ask this Crotalus mitchellii in our herp photo of the day, uploaded by kingsnake.com user simus! Be sure to tell simus you liked it here! Upload your own reptile and amphibian photos photos at gallery.kingsnake.com, and you could see them featured here! …read more Read more here: King […]
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Herp Video of the week: Speckled rattlesnake
Speckles are always better than freckles. Just ask this Crotalus mitchellii in our herp photo of the day, uploaded by kingsnake.com user simus! Be sure to tell simus you liked it here! Upload your own reptile and amphibian photos photos at gallery.kingsnake.com, and you could see them featured here! …read more Read more here: King […]
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