I have heard of but never seen the grease kings. Does anyone have a pic of them?

I have found a few intergrades between splendida and holbrooki that looked a lot like some of the so called sugar kings from Florida. The thing is there are subtle differences that when you really look at them give them away for what they are.

I think it is just the fact that the patterns of getula overall are simmular (either speckled, blotched or banded or a little of all of the above) that tends to make people think that some look alike. I feel that if you look at every overall trait per locality though you can see what makes them different though.

The intergrades tend to be more yellow and black and the Florida usualy tend to be more shades of creams and browns. Sure there are exceptions to every rule but as an overall norm if you take about ten or more specimens from any one location you get a mean average of trates that start to make more since.

But yeah, I know what you mean about how some from totally different places can look a lot alike. Eric

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