A Water Strider scavenging on dead Tiger Salamander larva?
Observations of a Water Strider scavenging on a dead Tiger Salamander larva
A Good Life
Miscellaneous Wanderings and Maunderings
A Good Life
Miscellaneous Wanderings and Maunderings
Ephemeral Pool
Couch’s Spadefoot
Over the last couple of years I’ve been doing a lot of posts and videos about Mexican Spadefoots (Spea multiplicata) in the Four Corners Area of Colorado. Here’s a different Spadefoot – this is a Couch’s Spadefoot (Scaphiophus couchii) from…
Woodhouse’s Toad in a Slickrock Pool
On 29th of July, 2022, I was out roaming in Southeastern Utah. Our Summer monsoon rains had started a few weeks earlier, and I was hoping to find Spadefoot Toads. As I walked along a broad slickrock drainage, I found…
Water Strider and Spadefoot Toad Tadpoles
The monsoon rains have come, and I’ve been spending quite a bit of time watching tadpoles in temporary desert ponds and pools. Most of the pools I’ve found this year have not been in my usual cattle tanks and silty mud…
Colorado Tiger Salamanders in Late Spring
I recently (2022-06-08) made a trip to check on some of my local Tiger Salamander tanks. Southwestern Colorado is still in a severe drought, so most of the tanks were bone dry. One exception, though, was this one on the…
Tadpole Shrimp (Triops longicaudatus) – Making Tracks
This was kind of a neat trip. On September 17, 2021, I drove out to the Sagebrush Deserts of Southwestern Colorado to take another look at one of my favorite critters, living in one of my favorite places. Tadpole Shrimp…
Mexican Spadefoot Toads – Racing the Sun
I’ve written earlier about my visits to a Southeastern Utah Mexican Spadefoot Toad pool. The latest of those visits was August 31, 2021. I was fascinated by these creatures. I made a series of series of subsequent visits – September…
Spadefoot Toad Tadpoles Metamorphosing
Back in late August of this year, I made another trip out to one of my Southeastern Utah Spadefoot pools to see how they were doing.
Tadpole Shrimp and the Timing of the Rains
Three or four days after my first visit to one of my favorite ephemeral pools in Canyons of the Ancients, I drove out and visited it again. I was eager to see how much water was left in the pool,…
Spadefoot Toad Tadpoles in a Desert Pool
When I was out a couple of weeks ago looking for Tiger Salamanders and Tadpole Shrimp, I also came across a large number of Spadefoot Toad Tadpoles.