Wanted - herping "hot spots"

[mandie]

I would love to know of a site to find Phrynosoma. To be able to take pics of them in situ would be amazing. Those and our native Heterodon are life listers for me to find in the wild.

I will definitely agree with you on that!!

[joeysgreen]

lol, you should have come to the AREM, the phryno talk was awesome All the lizard spots in Alberta are on private land to my knowledge, but I can help you elsewhere Chris. Send me a PM if you're ever planning a road trip for them.

Ian

[mandie]

I wanted to but couldn't make it as I had an class that I couldn't miss all day. How sad.

[danny]

I am surprised nobody has mentioned writing on stone provinvial park on here, lots of prarie rattlesnakes, bullsnakes, garters and even might get lucky and find a hognose. I believe there is a speicies of scorpian there as well and I know western horned lizards are in the area. it's a protected park and well worth the drive to visit for the landscapes and critters.

[GONESNAKEE]

I am surprised nobody has mentioned writing on stone provinvial park on here, lots of prarie rattlesnakes, bullsnakes, garters and even might get lucky and find a hognose. I believe there is a speicies of scorpian there as well and I know western horned lizards are in the area. it's a protected park and well worth the drive to visit for the landscapes and critters.

Only Bullsnake I ever encountered in the wild was right on a trail there, Mark

[Spankenstyne]

I am surprised nobody has mentioned writing on stone provinvial park on here, lots of prarie rattlesnakes, bullsnakes, garters and even might get lucky and find a hognose. I believe there is a speicies of scorpian there as well and I know western horned lizards are in the area. it's a protected park and well worth the drive to visit for the landscapes and critters.

Oh hah I thought I did, great spot. I must have edited it out of my post in a sleepy haze before hitting submit.

[steelrain420]

thats sick! and not in the cool way.

I heard cats have a parasite that live in there digestive track spores get droped with fecal matter then humans/other animals injest them and they go to your brain and make you like cats more so the parasite has a chance to return to the cats digestive track .....anyone ever heard that....I read it in maclanes magazine.

reserchers looked at the health records of over 45,000 woman and found that over a fourteen year period that woman infectede with toxoplasmosis a infection containing a parisite were 53% more likely to attempt suicide than there none infected counterparts!
toxoplasm parisites effects 1/3 of people world wide and healthy people may develop no symtoms.
toxoplasmosis is spered by uncooked meat, unwashed vegtables, and contact with felion "matter" poop!
the felion family is the only host that allows the paricite to reproduce.

[RedDeerExotics]

i good place to hearp in british columbia would be to go to cultas lake(google will show you directions) and at a near by camp called thousand trails the area is outside of chilliwak. i have found a couple rubber boas there, handfulls of black racers(carefull there really quite mean sometimes) one yellow belly racer, 3 pacific rattlers(north), a few bull or gophers(not sure wich one), tons of garters and a skink that i have no clue the name of. i did as well think i spotted a desert nightsnake but i cant be certain i never caught it, it went into a burrow. as well lots of frogs and toad that i know not the names of(never studies frogs but id like to).

[FrogO_Oeyes]

Thank you for that - it's a good location, but not suited to this thread. I'll add it to a different thread I will start soon. Note that any "black racers" will be western yellow-bellied racers...just darker colored ones. Black racers strictly occur much further east. Cultus Lake actually strikes me as a bit far west for racers, which occur in the arid interior. Cultus is more suited to coastal species. In fact...several of those species you mention have no business being so close to the coast.

[FrogO_Oeyes]

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