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Check out this Eastern velvet ant! Also called "cow killers" these are not ants but wingless wasps. While their sting is extremely painful, they rarely sting people. Look how iridescent their body is, just beautiful. In this video, you will get to hear one squeaking and learn about their behaviors and neat abilities plus you will see me risk holding one. Enjoy.

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This isn't the happiest of my videos. I inform the viewers about the chytrid (pronounced kit-rid) fungus that is killing and wiping out the amphibians worldwide. Chytridiomycosis is even alive and well in the United States! I will talk about how it is spread and how to prevent farther spread of it ourselves as naturalists and herpers. VERY IMPORTANT.



Here is a link to chytrid faqs and info: http://www.amphibianark.org/the-crisi...

Here is a simple recipe for cooking mole crabs. They taste great!

I caught myself a Stinkpot turtle! While out on a camping trip in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, I was exploring a dam. I thought I saw a small turtle swimming about but it kept going under rocks and whatnot. With some patience, I prevailed and caught myself a little Musk turtle. These guys are also called Stinkpot turtles for a good reason. They can stink! They are fairly unique looking in my opinion.

I was filming a cool caterpillar when I found a few assassin bugs in my yard. These ones are Wheel bugs to be more precise. They are impressive and large with a strange wheel like plate on their back. They can bite and it can really hurt, even worse than a hornet sting.

This is the Swamp Cicada (Neotibicen tibicen) Not Dogday harvestfly (Neotibicen canicularis). In this video, I am talking about a type of cicada known as the dog day harvestfly. Some people think these are locusts but they are not. A locust is basically a grasshopper. I had to keep my voice down as I was near my neighbors property late at night.

Awesome long tailed salamanders! I was out one day in April of 2014 looking for some herps. I didn't find much aside from a lot of red backed salamanders. After hitting one last spot, I looked under a log I placed there a couple of years ago, I found 3 or 4 long tailed salamanders. They look like other cave salamanders but have different black spots on red skin. It made me pretty happy. It was the first time I have seen them in this area! I shot a short video talking about them and shot some photos then I let them get back to what they were doing.



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I went out on my porch the one night and found this huge hornet. Initially, I hoped it was a cicada killer but upon looking closer, I saw that it was a hornet. BTW, this is a female. I should have known because I have seen one here at this time of year for 3 years in a row. It is a European Hornet. They aren't too aggressive but I still had reservations about holding this one because she seemed a little agitated - she was covered in web. Which is probably because she might have been raiding the web for food, although they are attracted to lights at night too. This is truly a Nature Now moment! I hope you like it.

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