In response to a photo of a Yellow-spotted Salamader by Jim Bailey, Harold Gough
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wrote "Handsome beasts. Any chance of shots from the side?"
Temporary removed from breeding pond, April 1991. Ambystoma maculatum
Yellow-spotted Salamander
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Yellow-spotted Salamander
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” I suppose you are an entomologist ? “
” Not quite so ambitious as that, sir. I should like to put my eyes on the individual entitled to that name.
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The Poet at the Breakfast Table.
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student of entomology
Quote – Holmes on ‘Entomology’
” I suppose you are an entomologist ? “
” Not quite so ambitious as that, sir. I should like to put my eyes on the individual entitled to that name.
No man can be truly called an entomologist,
sir; the subject is too vast for any single human intelligence to grasp.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
The Poet at the Breakfast Table.
Nikon camera, lenses and objectives
Olympus microscope and objectives
My town is having a debate about building a tunnel under a favorite Salamander crossing spot on a road. last spring, a group of humans was slowing traffic for them and caused a problem with the police. I think they should just close the road on the few days that they cross (warm rainy early spring days). They can just about perdict the days just by the weather.
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Doug Breda
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I do believe these salananders should be protected. Locally they (I guess we as taxpayers) are building tunnels beneath highways as Moose crossings, no so much to protect the Moose but to protect motorists. One is carried away from an encounter with a Moose.beetleman wrote:My town is having a debate about building a tunnel under a favorite Salamander crossing spot on a road.
Tunnels work but you need a barrier to prevent animals actually crossing the road. In the salamander case perhaps a group of people could patrol the shoulder of the road and collect the salamanders into buckets and then carry them across at the end of the session. Alternatively place a temporary vertical polyethylene wall along the outer edge ot the shoulder, either hand collect the salamanders that get stopped there or sink 1-gallon buckets flush with the ground surface to act as pitfall traps for the salamanders. Remove the salamanders in the early am and take them across the road. Remove the buckets, polyethylene, and fill in the holes at the end of the few days when they are migrating.
NU.
student of entomology
Quote – Holmes on ‘Entomology’
” I suppose you are an entomologist ? “
” Not quite so ambitious as that, sir. I should like to put my eyes on the individual entitled to that name.
No man can be truly called an entomologist,
sir; the subject is too vast for any single human intelligence to grasp.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
The Poet at the Breakfast Table.
Nikon camera, lenses and objectives
Olympus microscope and objectives
student of entomology
Quote – Holmes on ‘Entomology’
” I suppose you are an entomologist ? “
” Not quite so ambitious as that, sir. I should like to put my eyes on the individual entitled to that name.
No man can be truly called an entomologist,
sir; the subject is too vast for any single human intelligence to grasp.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
The Poet at the Breakfast Table.
Nikon camera, lenses and objectives
Olympus microscope and objectives
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Such rescues happen regularly with frogs and toads in the UK. I have not heard of it being done with newts. (I don't think they travel much).
Are the migrations, where applicable, of the tailed amphibians as predictable?
Harold
Are the migrations, where applicable, of the tailed amphibians as predictable?
Harold
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