• Northern Water Snake Youngster in Cayuga NY Gorge

    Northern Water Snake Youngster Northern Water Snake Youngster Northern Water Snake Skin Pattern Hiking in the ravine, up to Taughannock Falls, near Cayuga Lake, NY- we were surprised by the yell of “SNAKE!” Just as surprised to see in the running ice cold waters of...

  • Up Close With the Giant Malagasy Leaf Tailed Gecko

    The Flattened but Prehensile Tail Relaxing on Tree Trunk Top of Head can be Beautifully Colored Depending on Light and Emotion Full Body View on Tree Uroplatus fimbriatus Skin Uplcose It Turned to Check out the Camera Lens The Lateral Body Fringe The Amazing Foot The Amazing Tail This...

  • NaturalistGuy’s Mystery Lucky 13- Slides into Position

    Mystery 13 Northern Racer Eating Eastern Garter Snake Northern Racer Eating Eastern Garter Snake Northern Racer Fans, Friends- Any guesses?   Hint, some might have thought spaghetti would have been easier. Mystery 13, what the heck was that?? Okay, I guess this was lucky 13...

  • NaturalistGuy’s Stealth Visit To AWESOME Reptile and Amphibian Show, 3/5/11 Albany NY!!

    NG Sneaking Into Event Little Girl With Corn Snake Corn Snake E. Hognose Combo Corn Snake above, E. Hognose Snake Below, Shapes of Adaptation Eastern King Snake European Legless Lizard Blood Python Rainbow Boa My Daughter Celia, Hidden Behind a Clown Nose, Teaching a Young Man...

  • Stark Profile of the Brown Vine Snake, A Head of the Game

    The Brown Vine Snake In Costa Rica there are two pointy snouted Vine Snakes you may come across.  One is mostly green and very cryptic on open foilage, Oxybelis fulgida.  This beauty however is the Brown Vine Snake, Oxybelis aeneus which is nearly invisible on the brown branches...

  • Eastern Hognose Snake Eggs, and Egg Hatching Series, 2006 Memories

    Female Eastern Hognose with Eggs A First Breath Into Our World!! An Aberrant Baby E. Hognose Rest Before the Next Move Recently Layed Eggs, Embryos Can Be Seen Right Away Late Stage Eggs, Dark and Swollen, Days Away from Hatching I’ve been watching this species of snake...

  • Parrot Snake Face Off With NaturalistGuy!

    Parrot Snake! * Photo by Chuck Annicelli We were sitting at our table, the whole group, tired from the day and ready for our meal at this wonderful resort in the jungle.  Minutes after we sat down, someone had yelled “snake.”  By the time we got up  from the...

  • Absolutely Astounding VIDEO- Insect BATTLES True CHAMELEON!!!! (click on “watch on YouTube”)

    Jackson Tries to Tackle Large Mantis!! ARROW ABOVE WILL NOT WORK TO WATCH VIDEO PLEASE CLICK ON ARROW BELOW, then “WATCH ON YOUTUBE” Arrow is disabled.  Thank you!! Please Click On ARROW above then “Watch on YouTube” embedding is disabled on this video. ...

  • Amevia Lizards, Taste Testers of the Forest Floor

    Ameiva, Jungle Runner Ameiva leptophrys- most likely The Ameiva genus is wide spread from Mexico into South America.  From minute forms to lizards reaching up to a foot or more in length, they also come in a dazzling array of color patterns.  Some so emerald green on the dorsal...

  • A Feral LIZARD, With Awwwwe Factor 10, True Chameleon Success on Hawaii

    Young Jackson Chameleon Young Jackson Chameleon, female Adult Male Jacko In the early 70′s, the details will never be fully known, a reptile collector released a group of imported Jackson’s Chameleons, Chamaeleo jacksonii xantholophus from Kenya, Africa- to the Islands...


moth6 This is moth post number 6, which is shaped like a little stick.”  You’ll notice I’m missing moth post 4 and 5, and that is just fine.  It has to do with my system, that isn’t so great, but lets me proceed to moth’s 6, 7 and 8. *This is one really odd little scrawny thing of a moth, isn’t...


moth14 Moth 12 and 13 do not really exist, as part of this series but I still must persist.  So here I end for the night on magic moth 14, so that I may get some sleep, and leave you to wonder why some are missing in between.* *This moth apparently went to the flat moth council, and filed a complaint that most of the bark mimic...


Moth11 Moth 11 is workin’ the bark mimic mode, as if moths haven’t done so, or haven’t been told.


moth10 Moth 10 is so prim, proper I’d say, in a stoic and select kind of moth stoic way.


moth9 Moth 9 gives us swirly moth ice cream you see, with a bit of moth caramel and some moth spray from the sea.


moth8 Moth 8 I really like, its subtle and bright, with four symmetrical dots that are quite out of sight.


moth7 Here I give you Moth 7, which is not number 11, but certainly looks like a moth from moth heaven.


moth3 This is moth post number 3, directly to you from me.


moth2 This would be Moth number 2.  It comes after 1 and its posted for you.


moth1 I am in a new folder of moths and for the sake of getting the images out to you, I’m getting them up into their own post, each one- starting at number 1.  Just for this series.  Things are getting busy at NaturlistGuy, and this is all good.  But with this, we have to adapt, and come up with new paradigms for how...


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