Heterodon platirhinos Latreille in Sonnini and Latreille 1801. A Maryland Eastern Hognose Snake found on the crawl a few years ago in May. Photo by me.🐍

Missed #snakesaturday so #snakesunday! Enjoy a Washington, DC native, Den#1; it's going to be a long & productive Spring season methinks. Northern Copperhead (venomous), yet generally inofensive in daylight, at night, not so much & may be fussy. Also a scansorial🐍; a fancy word for semi-arboreal.

Happy #frogfriday! Here, have a free, yet small Ranitomeya yavaricola. As usual painting by me. Enjoy!🐸

#tbt Colombian and American friends. Friends matter.🐍

#tbt #placesi'dratherbe herping for Northern Pine Snakes with Bob Zappalorti in the Pine Barrens. State Endangered Species Permit No. 2023010🐍

A true #tacotuesday. Whew!

The USA president just committed an international war crime by threatening to destroy civilian infrastructures in Iran. There is no statute of limitation. Arrest him now and any service members who follow his war crime orders. End of story.

#notfrogfridy but have some free large poison frogs anyhow; Oophaga sylvatica from Colombia w/ scale from smallest to gigantic! Graphics and paintings by me as usual🐸

#notfrogfriday & Not extinct as we had determined in 2005. It is however Critically Endangered. As usual paintings by me. PDF of the book is available for free download at🐸 www.researchgate.net/profile/Ted-...

Laughed a good laugh when I read this paper on phylogenomic signal, noise & bias.🐍 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Not a snowflake. Enjoy whatever. Peace. Art by me & a frog of mine from long ago...🐸

Still #frogfriday. Enjoy, as always a small, yet free Ranitomeya sirensis polytype painted by me.🐸

#snakesaturday Here is an Agkistrodon c. contortrix caudal luring next to a seep where I recorded/photo vouchered for the National Park Service the only ever known Eurycea quadrilineatus to be recorded in the state of MD.🐍

The Making of OUT OF STEP by Minor Threat - featuring Ian MacKaye YouTube video by Life of the Record

Ian just called me to get all of my old 8mm skateboard films into the Smithsonian NMAAHC archive. My phone isn't synced w/ my computer yet this popped up on my laptop as we were talking. AI is creepy!
The Making of OUT OF STEP by Minor Threat-featuring Ian MacKaye.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUxW...

Federal ‘God Squad’ Exempts Oil and Gas Drilling in the Gulf from Endangered Species Rules A U.S. government panel on Tuesday exempted oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico from the Endangered Species Act.

A U.S. government panel on Tuesday exempted oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico from the Endangered Species Act after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said environmentalists' lawsuits against the industry threatened to hobble the nation's energy supply.

Ukraine, Gaza, Iran, Sudan, Congo what the fuck is humanity doing? Just so you know at our first chance the USA will vote these fuckers out. Remember when the world came together to close the hole in the Ozone? Climate change/Global change is our only fight that has any integrity. The rest is murder

Generals YouTube video by GBH - Topic

A punk salute to Army General Randy Alan George, fired/retired by Hegseth...
Defense Distinguished Service Medal
Army Distinguished Service Medal
Defense Superior Service Medal
Legion of Merit
Bronze Star
Purple Heart
Fuck Pete Hegseth www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxHZ...

Happy #frogfriday! Have a small & free Ranitomeya summersi polytype. Once thought to be R. fantastica now we know better. Enjoy!🐸

Solastalgia: the distress caused by environmental change - PubMed Worldwide, there is an increase in ecosystem distress syndromes matched by a corresponding increase in human distress syndromes. The specific role played by global-scale environmental challenges to 'sense of place' and identity will be explored in the future development of the concept of solastalgia …

So you know... pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18027145/#:~...

🐍Eastern Kingsnake in a MD County park I surveyed for 40+yrs. It's using an abandoned Bombetes sp. (native ground bumble bee nest) as it's microhabitat; not uncommonly observed. Pics by me. Consider this my publication of the event... Suffering from Solastalgia but managing. Need more food & a nap.

Well fed. Still #notfrogfriday & depressed. Have two completely free variable (polytypic) Ranitomeya variabilis. I'm just going to let the food hit & listen to obscure 70's & early 80's punk, think of better times & maybe sleep. Enjoy poison frog biodiversity. Art by me as always. Frogs from Perú🐸

Still depressed. I am going to cook a fantastic balanced meal & sleep. Still #notfrogfriday however, free I offer two-paintings I am actually pleased w/. These were painted in my 10th year of mad-crazy "hurry up & finish" painting every morph of every Andean poison frog🐸I missed a few. These I like.

#notfrogfriday I'm depressed, yep. #placesi'dratherbe Photo credit in pic. This is the specimen J.W. Daly identified all the-then-known alkaloids from; he insisted I only paint the poison frogs he identified and named alkaloids from. What a great guy and friend. R.I.P. John.🐸

#placesI'dratherbe Colombia. Photo credit by my friend and coauthor © 2010 Giovanni Alberto Chávez Portilla.🐸

#notfrogfriday but what the Hell. Here, have some small yet free Ranitomeya imitator. Enjoy!🐸Art by me.

Happy #triangulumtuesday! A day of "4's". Den No. 4 & Trapline No. 4, trap No. 20 which is more akin to L. elapsoides in my experience.🐍Enjoy!

Thamnophis in Washington, DC. Enjoy! Found side-by-side. Polytypes...🐸

Happy #Salamandersunday! For your muse have an assortment of Caudata from Washington, DC, Maryland, Virginia, South Carolina to Oakland California. Enjoy!🐸

That time of year to cook salmon w/ Olneya sp. flowers & of course for #notfrogfriday more poison frogs; Pepper's & the Evil-spirited Poison Frogs (orange polytypes) both described by Brown and Twomey in 2009. Don't confuse them! Enjoy!🐸

Happy #frogfriday! Enjoy a free Hahnel’s Poison Frog,
Ameerega hahneli (Boulenger, 1884). Yep, I painted it. Enjoy!🐸