Mike Pingleton
January 29, 2017
Field Herping, General
Amazon, Anilius, Hypsiboas, MT Amazon Expeditions, Pseudoboa, Road-Cruising
One of the hallmark activities of field herping, driving on (preferably) lonely roads at night can be incredibly productive at times. In the United States there are some famous and infamous roads for road cruising; Mexico is chock full of them, and other countries have their share. I’m here to…
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Mike Pingleton
December 15, 2016
Field Herping, General
Copperheads, Rattlesnakes, Snake Dens
The hard drive on my laptop bricked recently, and while going through the laborious process of restoring files from backup, I came across a folder labeled ‘10292006’ in my image archive. Opening the folder and looking at the images within, I remembered that October 29th, 2006 had been a good…
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Mike Pingleton
September 30, 2016
Field Herping, General
Everglades, frogs, herping, snakes
There’s not much trouble with this herping life, except for the Too-Many-Too-Much problem: too many places to visit, too much to see, and too much to cram into a relatively short lifespan. It always boils down to money and time; choices have to be made, and there are too many…
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Mike Pingleton
January 18, 2016
Creature Featurettes, General
Queen Snake, Regina
I ask that question from time to time. “Uh, because it’s Regina?” I never liked that answer. If ‘Queen Snake’ springs from Regina, the name of its genus, then where does Regina come from? If it’s the other way ’round, then who is responsible? Sorting this out has been less than satisfying,…
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Mike Pingleton
December 31, 2015
General
Drymarchon, HerpMapper
The end of the year traditionally requires an accounting of said year – and a very good year it was! I added 41 notches to my life list, got out in the field with lots of old friends, and made some new ones along the way. Here are some highlight…
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Mike Pingleton
November 13, 2015
General
HerpMapper, KHS, Snoring Thunder, Sternberg Museum
It’s a long way from my house to Hays, Kansas. Eleven hours behind the wheel is enough to make one wobbly, wild-eyed and weary, but the annual meeting of the Kansas Herpetological Society was worth it. A big part of the KHS meeting are the presentations that occupy the daytime…
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Mike Pingleton
October 4, 2015
General
field herping, herp
I started field herping in the early 1970s. I’ve been blogging about herps since 1996. Of course, blogging hadn’t been invented yet, but nobody told us, the handful of proto-bloggers who felt the compulsion to write about our adventures with amphibians and reptiles. I used to write lengthy missives about…
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