herpetobservations

Why follow my Tumblr? Well, aside from seeing a bunch of reptile and other nature pics, I'm a fun guy!

Adult female Dobsonfly...these guys are huge(this one is 5 inches long!) and scary looking, but if you leave them alone, you have nothing to worry about. The larval stage are called hellgrammites, and are great fishing bait

Bearded Dragons are popular pet lizards, originally from Australia

Malaysian King Cobra, this big guy is about 12ft long and is recovering well at our facility after the less-than-ideal conditions he had to endure in his previous situation

West African Gaboon Viper

Our Eastern Box turtles LOVE lunchtime 😂

Queretaro Dusky Rattlesnake (Crotalus aquilus)...these snakes are extremely variable and to make field identification even more of a challenge, they are generally believed to intergrade with other small Mexican rattlesnakes that have overlapping ranges

And the plant itself

There was another visitor on that same Rattlesnake Master, a bit closer to the ground. Unfortunately, I know zero about grasshoppers lol

Some variation among Carolina pygmy rattlesnakes..on the left is either axanthic (which means it's lacking yellow color pigments) or anerythristic (lacking red), center is one from the southern end of the range, where they intergrade with the Dusky pygmy rattlesnakes (a different, darker subspecies), and on the right is from the northeastern part of their range where most individuals tend to have a reddish color

Eastern Glass Lizard (Ophisaurus ventralis)...at first glance these guys may look like a snake, but closer inspection reveals external ear openings and moveable eyelids, which makes them all lizard. They're also much stiffer than a snake and have a very strong, rigid jaw

Beautiful Eastern Copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix) crossing a sand road