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A few people have asked me to post some pictures of the temporalis that I am working with now. The first group are four females from Worcester county MD. As of now I have no adult males but I do have a baby from this year from Wicomico county produced by Ted Thompson. Like all temporalis they are notoriously difficult to find.
The second group are Atlantic county temporalis. I have three males one of which is borrowed from Dave Niles. I think that all the males are still to small for breeding next year.

Those are sweet Carl. Nice to see you post.

-Dell
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I agree with Dell,...a fantastic looking group of locale temps!

~Doug
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Very nice. This is a great locality and I'm glad you're working to establish it. I hope you find an adult male from Worcester soon. Maybe this spring? I like the deep burgundy color in these guys.

Dave

Coastals are beautiful snakes. Always enjoy seeing other locales. It is interesting to see the variations in coastals from state to state. Here are some of the St. Mary's coastals I am working with. The first is a 2011 female holdback. The second is my prize female. She is a 2007. She is currently 34 inches long and produced 18 eggs this year. The last is of the breeding male. He is also a 2007 and slightly smaller than the female. He has more of a copper/brown color than red and the white bands have yellow. The majority of their off spring look like their mother and that in the first photo.

Pete

Carl I never did find the cover you set out but was darn close and in good habitat. Only thing I got for the effort was THE most GOD awful chigger infestation imaginable. 2012 will go down as the year of the chigger.
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My thanks to all the comments. A couple things. The most eggs I ever had from a coastal was 16 and that was from the Original Striped female. Tony, I was at the eastern shore twice in October. The first time I had a least a hundred tiny ticks on my lower legs. If I hadn't seen them I would have thought chiggers.The next time I didn't see any ticks. It's the ticks and chiggers that make these areas so unpleasant to be in. Over the years I've had Lyme disease four times. Always from ticks on the Coastal Plain. Even spraying your clothes with Permethrin the ticks still get on you.