That’s an interesting long-term project idea! If you do give it a go I’m looking forward to regular updates. 
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It probably won’t be until I have my own place as I would need an area to separate them from Kia and Willow. But I will definitely keep you updated!
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Thamnophis Sirtalis Fitchi (Valley Garter) hiked a little after midnight last night along a riparian habitat trail
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I work with adults with IDD, and sometimes take them on nature walks on and around our campus. I love critter-hunting with them and getting them to look at stuff they see every day in a new light by giving them more information about the habits and lifecycles of various forms of life. I think I’m cultivating some new reptile and bug lovers! Here’s some inverts we encountered last week:
Honey bee, isopod, and some sort of red beetle-like thing I haven’t been able to identify (sorry the picture isn’t great, he was moving away from me at considerable speed).
I also found a really cool little camel spider on campus last week, but sadly didn’t have my phone on me at the time. I’ll continue to keep my eye out for him, as it’d be super cool to get a picture if I ever see one again. It was the first time I’d seen a camel spider in “nature” (if a parking lot counts as nature).
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What’s that last picture? Looks like a crayfish
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Half of one yes
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Lol, @ghsaltie. To me, it looks like a coconut land crab, or at least some form of land crab @tgbbp72.
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One of my most favorite snake species!! I love them so much! Copperheads as well! 
Same!
I’ve done a bunch of research and determined that often they don’t do so well historically, but that it’s improving in the hobby. Now there are even a few (very few) people who breed them!
I just found this lizard in my front yard, does anyone know what it is? I’m in northern VA, USA.
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Wait, are you sure? That is awesome! Can you pm me their info, if you know it? I wanted to be one of the first people to captive breed them but if I could get a trio CB then I would be able to say that I helped the project along 
. Maybe this will work out!!!
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It looks like a five-lined skink with a nice meal. They are one of my favorite native lizard species because of their colors.
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I am sure, but the only way I know is from watching a video of Wicken’s Wicked Reptiles on youtube. He had said in a previous video that they had never been bred, and generally do very poorly in captivity, which was my understanding as well. Following that video, he mentioned in a subsequent one that several people had contacted him, letting him know that they had kept ring necks in captivity successfully, and at least one person had bred them. Adam is in Canada, but he’s very involved in the social-media-reptile world, so maybe he could give you more info or pass your contact info on to someone in the know. Since seeing that video, I have seen more instances (online) of people keeping ringnecks in captivity with success, but I admit I don’t remember.
Thank you @erie-herps ! I hope I get to see them more often on sunny days, they are adorable sunbathing! 
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I have found quite a few dekays brown snakes lately
I find lots of salamanders too
I also found this eft eastern newt and that was really exciting
Also this cranky chunky american toad
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Found this today at work, when checking out well pump house. Any idea what it is? I live in northeastern Indiana
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Tiger salamander
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I wondered, but some of the tiger salamanders I see online are a lot more of a stripped pattern. Was interesting to see, none the less.
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Yeah, that’s just natural variation.
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Are these something people keep as pets? I’ll do some looking into them. Was just surprised to see it inside our well pump house, but then not because of the water and humidity in there.
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Here’s a little lizard we found on our nature walk at work this morning. I’m pretty sure it’s some sort of fence swift. Just a little baby. Sorry the picture quality isn’t great, my phone camera doesn’t do great when I use the zoom, and he was nestled pretty deep in a bush. I love his/her pattern and colour.
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I grew up in Nevada City California, Nevada County on New Town road. The snake looks like a Ca King. The toad looks like a local toad, do you’all still have Horny toads out there? I left CA close to 30 years ago but I remember the large Horny toads we used to see on my parents property and really nice gopher snakes. My reptile love/hobby started with my father bringing home a large gopher snake in his lunch box when I was around 6 years old.
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