Bones and I went over to a woodlot behind where Bones used to live in Lafayette to look for snakes and for some frogs. We turned up a few interesting finds. We also set minnow traps in a ditch a local park in Youngsville in hopes of landing a few turtles and maybe an amphiuma. This year, we weren't disappointed catching 7 turtles and an amphiuma in the unbaited traps, including a Mississippi Mud Turtle.
Trachemys scripta elegans (Red-Eared Slider) 3 adults
Chelydra serpentina (Common Snapping Turtle) 3 subadults
Sternotherus odoratus (Stinkpot) 10 adults
Kinosternon subrubrum hippocrepis (Mississippi Mud Turtle) 1 adult
Anolis carolinensis (Green Anole) TMTC adults
Plestiodon fasciatus (Five-Lined Skink) 10 adults and subadults
Plestiodon laticeps (Broad-Headed Skink) 1 adult
Scincella lateralis (Ground Skink) TMTC adults
Agkistrodon piscivorus leucostoma (Western Cottonmouth) 1 juvenile
Nerodia fasciata confluens (Broad-Banded Watersnake) 1 dead juvenile
Thamnophis proximus orarius (Gulf Coast Ribbonsnake) 6 adults
Storeria dekayi limnetes (Marsh Brownsnake) 2 adults
Acris blanchardi (Blanchard's Cricket Frog) 5+adults
Incilius nebulifer (Gulf Coast Toad) 1 adult
Lithobates clamitans clamitans (Bronze Frog) 5+ tadpoles
Amphiuma tridactylum (Three-Toed Amphiuma) 1 adult
Agkistrodon piscivorus leucostoma (Western Cottonmouth)
Thamnophis proximus orarius (Gulf Coast Ribbonsnake) adults
Storeria dekayi limnetes (Marsh Brownsnake)
Plestiodon fasciatus (Five-Lined Skink) adult
Plestiodon laticeps (Broad-Headed Skink) adult
Sometimes skinks bite and it hurts
Sternotherus odoratus (Stinkpot) female (L) and male (R)
Roadside ditch (Stinkpot habitat)
Kinosternon subrubrum hippocrepis (Mississippi Mud Turtle)
Turtle and Amphiuma habitat
Chelydra serpentina (Common Snapping Turtle) subadult
Incilius nebulifer (Gulf Coast Toad)
Amphiuma tridactylum (Three-Toed Amphiuma) adult