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Topic: Road Cruising Benton Co.

Kory and I hooked up for another night of road cruising, before he showed up I flipped a little bit

Another frigging tarantula
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Prairie lizard
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Kory flipped this, pretty cool
Cicada emerging
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And OMG..lol  I've been looking for one of these this year.  Now my next target species (for photos only) are Timbers & Western Diamondbacks.  Of course, there's a long list of snakes I want to see, but those are my focus now.  Ironically Kory had just said Pigs were hard to turn up..LOL
Pigmy
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Walking Stick (love these guys)
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Slimy Salamander Kory spotted
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BIG ol' spider Kory found..creepy looking!  Not as creepy as the stupid caterpillar that was ON MY NECK!  O.o
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One more of the pig
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Couldn't get pics of the 3 coyote pups we saw, or the possum playing possum from the coyote pups, but it was fun!   Thanks Kory!

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Good job on the Pygmy.

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Awesome Courtney!  I know you have been looking hard for one all year!!!

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That is one mean looking SPIDER!!!!!!! Congrats on the pig.

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Yeah the spider was a trip. I still can't believe we found that pig..lol  I thought it was a small Copperhead, just because..well that's all we usually see.
Now I'm on to r/c some Timbers for pics..and I'll have to find new target species.  The salamander and coyote pups were new for me too. big_smile
Although so was the armadillo necrophilia.  It's been a year for firsts.

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Ok I gotta say it..


WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! big_smile

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WHEEEE!  Is that what the pyg said on its roller-coaster ride????  HA!

'twas a nice pyg, for sure.  I think a bit of rain right now could really help the road cruising efforts even more.  The frolicking coyote pups we saw on several passes were super cute.

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LOL!! No she said "HISSS! I KEEL YEEEW!!!"
She has the personality of a teenage girl so far.
I WILL get pics of those coyote pups! Maybe they'll have tortured another possum into playing possum.
I should have used my cell phone and just tried to get video of them in the headlights.  DUR. roll

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I still am trying to ID the spider.  I'm pretty sure it's Lycosidae, maybe Hogna carolinensis.  Freaky looking thing!  I dunno what it is with me and spiders, I seem to find tons of them.  I can't tell you how many spider webs I must've cleared out. 
Thankfully, they don't freak me out like the stupid worms and slugs...and apparently caterpillars.

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amercnwmn wrote:

I'm pretty sure it's Lycosidae, maybe Hogna carolinensis.

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Maybe genus Pardosa?

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you know better than I do!! lol  I just know it was a creepy looking fuzzy spider..and HAYOOJ

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From tonight:
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Courtney, you are the Queen of road cruising!!!!!!  Im tired of cruising dirt roads. Its hard for me to see them. Got to find some good black top!!!!!!

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Hey, this is all Kory. I am just along for the ride.

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Get to feeling better, there's plenty of habitat around here we should be able to find some neat animals.  We've seen some neat stuff, the coyote pups were way cool...lol Didn't see them tonight, though.

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kaptainkory wrote:

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amercnwmn wrote:

I'm pretty sure it's Lycosidae, maybe Hogna carolinensis.

http://herpsofarkansas.com/Nature/Arthropods?action=createthumb&imcl=med&upname=th41---D8DBB0--2C3V0151.jpg.jpg

http://herpsofarkansas.com/Nature/Arthropods?action=createthumb&imcl=med&upname=th41---D8DBB0--2C3V0153.jpg.jpg

Maybe genus Pardosa?

That pig looks huge! How big was it?

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Big.  I haven't weighed it yet, it did take a F/T hopper mouse today.  I tried to get out earlier, but I have apparently scratched my eye at some point and I could barely see the road..I certainly didn't see the Kamikaze deer that flung itself in front of my car until it was too late.  I have had better nights tongue

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Oh and the hopper, you can't tell she ate it..lol I thought it would be about the right size, but I think a small adult mouse or even rat pink she could chow down.

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So is there a deer steak cookout at your house this weekend????

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Not much of it left.

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Not roadcruising, but hanging out at the river, my little one spotted one of the many Nerodia swimming about.  She just HAD to catch it.                        (dunno where she gets THAT from!) But I was pretty impressed that she managed to properly ID it and get it. 

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Ok so after looking closer at the differences of my Pigmy vs Marc's: what do you think? Male?
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50's pompadour? lol
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And some pics from today's trip to the river.  Serenity caught another Nerodia (by herself) LOL This one wasn't as relaxed as the little one from the above pics! LOL  It bit her and she said "AAAGHH!  LET GO OF ME!" lol  But it wasn't a bad bite, and didn't deter her in the least.

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releasing him in a less populated area
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Went out with John & Seth for a little bit around Benton Co.
This is pretty much how it went down:
2 Black Rats, Serenity took a black rat bite to the face (which she laughed about), 1 AOR Pigmy, 1 amazing snag by Seth to save said Pigmy from becoming a DOR while I scuttlebutted across the road to avoid an oncoming truck, and 1 DOR pigmy that was PROBABLY taken out by said truck. hmm

This first black rat delivered Serenity's 4th bite of the summer (2 Nerodia, this rat snake, and 1 Ball Python..she takes them like a champ, laughs and goes on)


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I'm still not sure how I spotted this snake on a fresh blacktop road and can't ID a Pigmy in the headlights. lol

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Hardcore, I said.
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2nd Rat of the night:  Black Rat Top Road, these used to be boring to me, because I used to see them so frequently, but these are the first two AOR rats I've seen this year!
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AAAGH! Just heartbreaking.. Dead as a doornail DOR
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Size comparison (and YEAH I checked to make sure it was dead BEFORE I stuck my foot there)
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Seth made a pretty good grab rescuing this one off the road before it became a DOR!  *Snagged for Kory*

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UGH my lighting sucked b/c of the red reflection.  The Pig looks a LOT darker, but it's actually NOT that dark.

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Does it have a rattle?  Anyway, great night...3 pygs!  Unfortunately, roads that get any traffic at all are going to have DORs.

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