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took about an hour to find this lil guy. was with a couple bio teachers

Is it a Green Treefrog (What was their name again?)?
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CokeOfMan

>>took about an hour to find this lil guy. was with a couple bio teachers
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CokeOfMan

Np
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CokeOfMan

That is a Pine Barrens Tree Frog. They should start calling in numbers soon.

Ed

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1.2.1 Leopard Geks
1.0.1 High Yellow, 0.1 Blizzard, 0.1 Normal
1 crested gecko
2 White's Treefrogs
2.1 Fire Bellied Toads
0.0.2 Red Eared Sliders
1 Spotted Tail Warty Newt
Fish:
0.2.1 Parrot Cichlids
1 Upside Down Catfish
0.0.2 Bullhead Catfish
1 Geophagus jurupari
0.0.1 Blue Gouramis
5 Goldfish
5 koi

Herpin since 93'

there seson is almost over now. i do not remember were this is. i no it was off the sid of the road in a park. i am going to say about 8 miles from maguer airforce base. im not all to shore. these froms r one of the most endanged in the state and have bin moved from endanged to threatend. took about an hour to find him he was only 3 feet away but still hard to find. saw so carpenter frogs that night as well and a lot of carnivourous plants.
CrazyCody

When I go looking for this species I usually go in the next two to three weeks when the areas I know have a chorus of up to 100-200 frogs (according to A Field Guide to the Pine Barrens of New Jersey the breeding season is until mid-June). These frogs will also call most of their active period as with some other anurans they have a rain call.

Do you go to Stockton??

Ed

stockton no. i go to brick high school. i know more then any one in the school about herps and u can ask eny one that gose there every one nose me. mid june is a lil long for them. we herd about 20-30 calling that night it was a lil cool out.
CrazyCody

I wondered about Stockton as I met a number of them when we did the herp survey part for a bioblitz for the Nature Conservancy in Burlington County.
Okay as for knowledge base, I work as the Lead Keeper Dept. of Herpetology, Philadelphia Zoological Society so I do know what I am talking about. I know of several colonies in Burlington County that I have monitored for almost the last 13 years now. These colonies will call until mid-June and that is not too late for them. I have also located Hyla andersonii as late as September as the males can call when ever a rain front comes through. They just may not be at the breeding sites and are much harder to locate.

Ed

WOW!!! i could never find them past june or on rainy days. just bad luck i sappose. thats cool u work as lead keeper what do u work with eny thing spacific or all herps in general.
CrazyCody

My primary area is with all of the amphibians, but my area also has Abronia graminea, Panther chameleons, standing's day geckos, Pyxis planicauda, Dumeril's Boas, Madagascan Hognose snakes, Emerald tree boas, and other herps. I also fill in on the other areas as needed so I work with almost all of the species at one time or another.

Ed

heeh..have yet to see those. I've been a Jersey native for the past 15 years (until recently to TX) and been down to the Pine Barrens plenty of times. Definitely a different ecosystem from the stereotypical Jersey-suburban-toxic-slum image most people think of.

Definitely lots of pitcher plants, sundews, and bladderworts in the boggy areas (another hobby of mine is carnivorous plants). Never saw a Pine Barrens treefrog nor a spotted turtle, much less a bog turtle.

Johnny

i have spotted turtles out side my house all the time mostly in fall in spring. there is a large puddle that forms out side my place when it rains and from time to time there are spottys in there. i have seen one bog turtle wonce sunning it self on a tree in a pond.
CrazyCody

I am unaware of any reported sightings of bogs climbing to sun themselves. They do not tend to leave the grass tussoks to sun and often only sun with the top of the shell exposed to the sun. This is a very secretive species. The couple of times I have had turtles collected when observed sunning in this fashion that were though to be bog turtles they have all been spotless spotted turtles.

Ed

Yo Crazy,

What part of Jersey you from? Most of the places I go around exploring are Lebanon and Wharton State Forest (plus Tabernacle where my friend lives). I might make another trip up there late summer or early fall...went around April and saw NOTHING, but a tick sure got me.

Johnny

its Cody and i live in bricktown thats in ocean county in the middle of nj.
CrazyCody

I live down in Cumberland COunty but I know some really good spots in Lebanon and Wharton State forests.

Ed

Hi Johnny,
Are you a member of the ICPS? I just got a plug of U. reniformes that I will be shortly potting up.

What species do you have?

Ed

Hehe...no, though I think I should, since I've been growing these plants for so long as I can remember (started with a plant of Dionaea from Home Depot..rest is history). What are the requirements to apply? I'll check the website for details.

Plants that go munch, munch, munch...

Johnny

P.S. I still have yet to visit the Philly zoo...shame on me. =P

Oh ya,

I kinda shrank my collection and only recently picked up again. I have currently:

1. Dionaea (jaws, akai ryu, dente tooth, green dragon, normal, and some others i can't remember)
2. Sarracenia p. purpurea, p. venosa; alata
3. Drosera filiformis, intermedia, capensis, scorpiodes, rotundifolia, capillaris
4. Nepenthes alata
5. Pinguicula primuliflora
6. Darlingtonia
7. unknown Utricularia

...and a bunch of sphagnum. Heheh so mostly "mainstream" carnivores for now (sorry the misspellings), until i get enough space and money to go crazy again...

Johnny

Hi Johny,
CHeck out http://www.carnivorousplants.org/

If I remember correctly membership dues are $25 for a year but the seedbank makes it worthwhile.

When we moved I lost most of my plants but I am slowly beginning to increase the number of plants.
I currently have
1 P. agnata blue (currently blooming like crazy)
1 P. agnata x morensis X
several seedling P. caerulea
A pot of Drosea dielsian
1. Sarracenia "Judith Hindle"
1 U. livida (also blooming like crazy)
and a cutting of U. reniformis that I'm getting started.
I have a couple of packets of pitcher plant seeds in the fridge stratifying at the moment.

You should check out the cobra exhibits at the Zoo. We jsut got a new pair of king cobras (the old male is the oldest king in the world by several years at this point). Most of the cobras are here until October.

Ed

Ed

I also live in NJ, been wanting to take a day to hike around the pine barrens as I'm about 20 minutes from them, never have yet

Trying to talk Hubby into it,

Very cool froggie pic!
Suncharmers

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Eve