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my Corona-vocation will be documenting wildness on my five acres in West Central Florida... nothing serious...just a witness to the beauty.
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brooksville, florida
views ON the porch... late night visitor and my handy led light got me close without harming this bee
Cariblatta sp.
Cariblatta es un género de cucarachas de la familia Ectobiidae. / posible especie endemica de la isla.
Cariblatta is a genus of cockroaches in the family Ectobiidae.
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Lugar de Observacion: San Isidro, Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana
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Location: Peninsular Malaysia
Toxicity: Non-venomous
Size: 25 cm+ (max length: 47 cm)
Description" It is mostly terretsrial but can be occasionally seen resting on low bushes/plants. The color of its neck might come in different shades of color e.g., red, yellow, brown, or orange. However those found in Hong Kong has no "neck band".
Diet: Slugs, snails and earthworms
Location: Malaysia (in the wild)
Our group was experimenting on twin-flash light set-up.
Also known as mangrove snake or gold-ringed cat snake.
Location: Peninsular Malaysia
Size: About 1 feet
Also known as red-sided keelback
Toxicity: Mildly venomous (Not medically significant to humans except those who are hypersensitive to any type of venom including ant bites or bee sting).
Location: Peninsular Malaysia
Size: less than 1 ft
Temperament: Quite aggressive
Also known as red-sided keelback
Toxicity: Mildly venomous (Not medically significant to humans except those who are hypersensitive to any type of venom including ant bites or bee sting).
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Poor frogs, the past few days had been very dry with little to no rain in most areas. And their puddle is fast drying up but it seems they are desperately trying to mate & "propagate". An in-situ shot! Not sure why is this arboreal species is doing on the forest floor, normally they would mate on branches or trees.
Location: Peninsular Malaysia.
Previously Rhacophorus norhayatii, now Rhacophorus norhayatiae.
The specific epithet norhayatiae honours Professor Dr Norhayati Ahmad of the National University of Malaysia (UKM) (Chan & Grismer, 2010).
Location: Peninsular Malaysia.
Distribution: Across Peninsular Malaysia, it also occurs in the extreme south and a small area of west-central Thailand, near the border with Myanmar (Dring, 1979; Chan-ard, 2003).
Habitat: Lowland pristine rainforest and hill forests up to 550 m elevation (Chan et al. 2010b; Dring 1979; Grandison 1972; Norhayati et al. 2005; Wood et al. 2008b). Living on trees up to 7 m above the forest floor,
Location: Peninsula Malaysia, Malaysia
Toxicity: Non-venomous
Size/length: About 1.5- 1.6 metres, Max: 2.5m
Also known as Red Tailed Green Racers, Red Tailed Ratsnakes or Red Tailed Tree Racer.
Characteristic: Quite aggressive or rather defensive at the beginning but calm down after awhile. It is mainly arboreal mainly a diural rather than nocturnal species. Beautiful green snakes with a red/light red/grey tail and a brilliant blue tongue.
Habitat: Red Tailed Racers prefer lowland and up to about 750m above sea level in jungle, agricultural (farmed) land, mangrove forests. They spend most of their time up on trees and bushes.
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Saw it crossing the road at 1.33 am last night on the way out from the forest back to the small town. The best snake/ find of the night, exactly like the phrase "save the best for last" lol.
Spotted by Kurt.
Weinell et al., (2020) revised/elevated the name of this species to Boiga melanota.
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Length: Estimated slightly over 2 m
Toxicity: Mild (intense swelling) but there has never been a confirmed fatality in Malaysia.
Range: Indonesia (Bangka, Belitung, Borneo, Java, Sulawesi, Riau Archipelago, Sumatra), Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, and the Philippines.
Plaga del Guandul, Chícharo o Arveja (Cajanus cajan)
Cochinilla Harinosa / Crypticerya Genistae (2006, Cory Unruh et. Dr. Penny Gullan)
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Lugar de Observacion: San Isidro, Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana
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Cochinilla_Harinosa-1132
Location: Selangor, Malaysia
Our group was experimenting on twin-flash light set-up.
Also known as mangrove snake or gold-ringed cat snake.
Weinell et al., (2020) revised/elevated the name of this species to Boiga melanota.
academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/advance-article/doi/10.1093/z...
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Also known as Cameron Highlands Keelback.
Synonym: Hebius sanguineus, Amphiesma sanguineum
Malay: Ular Cameron Highland.
Maximum Size : 60 cm
Reproduction: Oviparous
I'll have to thank my friend Chan for spotting this snake. One of the uncommon keelback in Peninsular Malaysia.
Etymology: Named after Latin sanguis (“blood”) + -eus, for "of or relating to blood" or "bloody" or "bloodred", a reference to the color of the species.
Location: Peninsula Malaysia
Toxicity: Non-venomous
Size: 1.4-1.6 m (sub-adult).
Also known as ular daun, ular lidi, ular kunyet, ular pucuk, ular Bungai, puchok pisang, Selangoi Bata, Oraj Gadung.
Diet: Birds, lizards and frogs.
Reproduction: Live young
Location: Lowland forest Sabah, Malaysia.
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As this species gets older, it will turn to light washout yellow for the Bornean morph as compared to the Pen. Malaysia, southern Thailand and Sumatra morph which retain its deep green coloration.
Found this gorgeous pit viper on the final night of my 3-day solo herping trip in Sabah, Borneo. This is a big female with thick body and quite long for this species. When I found this awesome specimen, I immediately called the two German visitors (non-herpers), who tagged along on my final day.
This was one of my biggest target of my entire impromptu Sabah trip because over the past 9 years, I'd only seen a neonate and a juvenile. A few days ago, Dr. Alvin shared his photos of his 1-week trip in Sabah, I immediately booked my tickets. FYI, during this 3-day herping trip, I found both male (Day 1) and female (Day 3) adults.
Location: Lowland forest of Sabah
Synonym: Parias sumatranus; Trigonocephalus sumatranus;
Toxicity: Venomous
Size: About 1.1 meter (3.8 ft.)
Breeding: Egg-laying pit vipers (oviparous)
Also known as Sumatran Tree Pit Viper, Sumatra Pit Viper, Habitat: In Borneo it inhabits lowland forests at elevations below 800 meters (2,600 feet).
Diet: Small mammals (rodents), birds, and frogs.
Description: T. sumatranus is a large heavy-bodied pit viper, with a prehensile tail. Adults may attain 1.6 metres (5 feet 3 inches) SVL (snout–vent length), with fangs over 10 mm long (Das, 2006).
Toxicity: T. sumatranus can inject large quantities of venom. Fatalities from its bite have been reported, and it should be considered dangerous (Das, 2006)
One of the iconic vipers in Borneo. You won't believe it, I found this massive female just outside the public toilet of a state park.
Location: Sabah, Borneo
Toxicity: Venomous
Size: About 2 feet
Habitat: Lowland forest
Also known as North Philippines Temple Pit Viper
It bloat itself when it feels threaten to make itself looks bigger to predator or when threaten.
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Location: Peninsular Malaysia.
Previously Rhacophorus norhayatii, now Rhacophorus norhayatiae.
The specific epithet norhayatiae honours Professor Dr Norhayati Ahmad of the National University of Malaysia (UKM) (Chan & Grismer, 2010).
Location: Peninsular Malaysia.
Distribution: Across Peninsular Malaysia, it also occurs in the extreme south and a small area of west-central Thailand, near the border with Myanmar (Dring, 1979; Chan-ard, 2003).
Habitat: Lowland pristine rainforest and hill forests up to 550 m elevation (Chan et al. 2010b; Dring 1979; Grandison 1972; Norhayati et al. 2005; Wood et al. 2008b). Living on trees up to 7 m above the forest floor,
Location: Lowland forest of Selangor, Malaysia.
Size: About 1.4- 1.5 m
Toxicity: Non-venomous
On a rainy day, well it just stopped about an hour ago or so when we found this stunning snake perched at 8-9 ft above us. At a glance (before it showed off its aggressive/ready to strike "S" pose), I thought it was the Green Trinket Snake (a much rarer green snake) but upon further inspection it turned out to be a red tailed racer.
My friend on the other hand, yelled Viper! Viper!... I had to "shut him up" on the spot because it would literally scare the snake... Some might argue that snakes can't detect voice/sound but they can due to the vibration from the sound/voice waves can be detected by snakes and other reptiles.
Location: Highland of Pahang, Malaysia
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Toxicity: Non-venomous
Not sure if they are a pair, I saw them 2 feet apart from each other. So I decided to post them closer, so my macro lens can take sharper photos of both of them. They sure showed slight different coloration. Well, it is anyone's guess if they are a pair (male/female) or just some color variations. Perhaps experts can share your experience or more information.
Etymology: Named after the Latin vertebra (backbone) plus the suffix -alis (belonging to), in reference to the “sharp vertebral keel”.
Another personal record of 11 snakes night (solo herping) unfortunately only 2 species (T.fucatus 9 specimen, and 2 slug snakes)
Location: Malaysia
Lovely change of tone yellow tone (head) to dark orange (tail).
Also known as Mangrove snake, gold-ringed cat snake, Yellow-ringed Cat Snake, ular bakau, ular cincin emas, ular bangkit, ular taliwangsa, ular punti, Oraj taliwangsa (Indonesia), Ngu Plong-tong (Thailand).
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Location: Peninsular Malaysia.
Previously Rhacophorus norhayatii, now Rhacophorus norhayatiae.
The specific epithet norhayatiae honours Professor Dr Norhayati Ahmad of the National University of Malaysia (UKM) (Chan & Grismer, 2010).
Location: Peninsular Malaysia.
Distribution: Across Peninsular Malaysia, it also occurs in the extreme south and a small area of west-central Thailand, near the border with Myanmar (Dring, 1979; Chan-ard, 2003).
Habitat: Lowland pristine rainforest and hill forests up to 550 m elevation (Chan et al. 2010b; Dring 1979; Grandison 1972; Norhayati et al. 2005; Wood et al. 2008b). Living on trees up to 7 m above the forest floor,
Location: Borneo, Malaysia
Toxicity: Non-venomous
Temperament: This specimen was surprisingly docile compare to O signatus and O. purpurascens (super nasty)
Also known as Eight-lined Kukri Snake, Eight-striped Kukri Snake, Grace's Kukri Snake,
It bloat itself when it feels threaten to make itself looks bigger to predator or when threaten.
Location: Peninsular Malaysia.
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Location: Mid-elevation hillside Sabah.
We found two during this trip on Day 1 and Day 2.
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Length: 1.8m
Location: Peninsular Malaysia
Western Mangrove snake or gold-ringed cat snake (Boiga melanota) occurs mainly in mangrove or riverine habitats. By day it lies motionless on overhanging branches, but at night becomes active coming to the ground and feeding on other vertebrates including rodents, small birds and their eggs, frogs, bats and sometimes other snakes. It is also an adept swimmer.
This is a mildly venomous, rear-fanged species. Though it may appear quite docile by day it should not be approached too closely as some specimens may be unpredictable in temperament.
Various subspecies are identified for example B. d. melanota the yellow bands do not extend over the back but are confined to the flanks. From the Riau Archipelago, Indonesia including a specimen from Pulau Sugi with much reduced barring, and a specimen from Pulau Bintan with typical barring. This subspecies ranges from southern Thailand, through Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore, to eastern Sumatra and the Riau Islands.
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On our way back to our hotel after dinner, we found this snake clipped by a passing car. Didn't want to waste a chance to record the last few moments of this unfortunate snake. Here is one of the photos of this freshly deceased radiated rat snake. Take home message, "always drive carefully and slowly when you are passing through forested area".
Also known as Copperhead rat snake or copper-headed trinket snake.
Etymology: The Latin for radiatus, might refer to the 'with rays', probably used to describe the three black stripes that sort of radiates out from its eyes.
Location: Terengganu, Malaysia
Toxicity: Mildly venomous but will bite
Size: about 4.5 feet (about 1.3 meter)
Also known as Copperhead rat snake or copper-headed trinket snake.
Location: Selangor, Peninsula Malaysia
Toxicity: Non-venomous but will bite
Size: about 3 feet
Just spotted this great bush-cricket when went to sleep. Grabbed my camera and clubbed with the macro lens...luckily the bush-cricket was not in a hurry and not only waited me but was really patient with the flashlights. The light source was provided by the dimmed light of my terrace and the flash burst...it was not a typical macro shooting light but I like the result! :)
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Also known as Monocellate Cobra
Malay (local name: Ular Senduk or Ular Tedung Senduk.
When threaten its head will normally hood like a "ladle" hence the name Ular Senduk which is literally translated to "Ladle Snake".
Toxicity: Highly venomous (medical significance to human -potentially lethal if left untreated)
Diet: This species feed on amphibians and small mammals (rats, mice) hence it can be occasionally seen in residential areas, orchards, palm oil estates, or gardens which can be tricky. Human and snakes encounters in Malaysia suffice to say normally didn't end well.
Location: Peninsular Malaysia.
Distribution: Bangladesh,NE India (Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Sikkim, Assam, West Bengal, Orissa, Tripura), Bhutan, Nepal, South China, and SEA countries (Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand, & South Vietnam)