Hello Dmong,
I appreciate your input. Massasaugas are only found @ a few localities in extreme northern Indiana. The locality for the praire king is in the lower Wabash Vally floodplain: a flat habitat devoid of the rolling rocky hill country. The hill country is to the east about 1 1/2 hours drive. It is there where copperheads are common and , unfortunately, timbers are now restricted to just a few counties. The IL side is farmland as well. One would have to travel @ least 2 hours south to hit copperhead/timber country. It never ceases to amaze me how animal diversity changes as one explores different habitats. cheers, wolf
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2 tham radix
1 Chicago Tham s. semifasciatus
2 elaphe vulpina
1 gray tiger salamander
4 Aphonopelma hentzi
1 G rosea
1 Haplo minax
1 Brachy angustum
1 Brachy sabulosum
1 Brachy vagans
1 Cent. hentzi scorp

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