Posted by:
Terry Cox
at Sun Jun 1 20:45:41 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Terry Cox ]
Remember the hibernaculum I mentioned below that got bulldozed. Last spring my friend, Eddie, and I, found a large female at the hibernaculum site. As luck would have it, Eddie wanted to try his hand at incubating some eggs, so he took the female that we knew had been copulating with males there. She delivered the eggs around the end of June (yes, I think you can notice she is gravid). He hatched out all the babies and brought them back up north over Labor Day Weekend. We released them in the woods near the original site. I hope many of them dispersed and are now still alive. I doubt the mother survived the bulldozer.
PS: I've never seen babies at the hibernaculum. Hmmmm, I wonder if Easterns eat their own young?
TC
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