Anyone else do this braindead hobby? Found 48/55 herp species in my state and am autistically obsessed with finding all of them in the wild. Herping finds + questions + methods welcome
Wat state you in? Here in MO we got lotsa froggos. I picked up a big bullfrog n it knocked the air outta me with its back legs. Once I was in a ravine catching tadderpoles n a frog jumped in and a cottonmouth ate it. Glad I didnt step there I see a buncha alligator snappers after the Mississippi/Missouri floods. Once I rescued one outta the rud like how Mario beats Bowser in SM64. (Truckers like to crash em.) Once I found a Ouichita map turtle very far from home. It hated me. Every found lil babby snapper boisDelivered a very sick false map turtle to a wildlife center with a Benjamin as a donation underneath a heater I left for him. He had a nose infection but got better. Had a black snake named Jake and a garter named Sam that lived in power boxes at my work, but I haven't seen em since last fall. I regularly rescue fowlers toads, American toads, plains and green leopard frogs, gray tree frogs, and baby red ear sliders from the air handler pits at my work.we have ponds but they're so anaerobic from cyanobacteria n only the tiniest of minnows can survive. Everything else like snacks n turts lay their eggs on land. Can u find the herp in pic? Taken at St. Louis Zoo. No tuataras on display :(
>>4774013I fw the toad severely. I’m from Michigan, here’s a rattlesnake from a bog last fall.
>>4773983How/where are your finds concentrated? (surroundings, distance from the city, etc.)
>>4773983IRL Pokemon Go.I've only ever been able to go herping properly once, when I was a teen and someone in the local group took pity on me and took me road herping. I can't remember the exact road. I could hunt out my own locations but I'd feel safer out in the desert with one or two other people, since animals aren't the only things out there. But here in AZ people are ridiculously paranoid about sharing any spots at all to look at anything - with good reason, but I feel like after someone has been in the hobby for years you can cough up one fucking hiking trail. It's too hot and lonely out there by myself.
Bump, found this last year crossing a road.
>>477401310/10 pic anon well done
>>4776205i had this as a 'pet'not recommend
>>4776223agreed
>>4773983I tried getting into this a couple of years ago. I wasn't very successful so I kind of gave up. All I was able to find were a few box turtles, a single rough earth snake, and a fuck ton of redback salamanders. Probably would have gotten more out of it if I'd had friends to do it with but I'm a lonely 4channer so that wasn't really an option.I'd be curious to know what types of spots you guys usually go to. I mostly stuck to state parks since this is Tennessee and I don't want to get shot because I accidentally wandered onto someone's property. I've heard that road cruising at night is pretty good for finding herps but again this seems like something that would be better with a group of people.
