In my 5 plus years on this site, i have never read, or spoken to anyone in person on this site that has lied or tried to "cover" up the truths about rust. In fact all the information i have received here has been quite to the contrary, and some of the best information i have received for maintaining my garden has been from the hybridizers in this area. Louisiana. Where are you from? Cause you sure dont seem to want to list all of your information out. You seem as though your soul purpose here is to start crap with people. Because although you give reasons to people to be wary, you never actually tell them why, or what of? Tell everyone your story, about the "truth" about whats going on here in the south, and what-ever other place your in, but dont list it here in this forum, list it in the CONVERSATIONS portion of the site, im tired of clicking on your posts, expecting something educational and/or informative and being dissapointed with another tyraid of nothingness.

hey viridis. that is true about the 17 species of geckos there is alot more than that there are just about every reptile that you can think of. and more trust me from collecting in the everglades. i seen a lot and know that people let lose rep. and so do the reptile wholesellers let lose a lot of reptiles. so ther is a lot not reported yet. this can turn into a problem later on. but is nice to look at while hunting reptiles. none???????????????????????????????

I will try to provide some info based off of memory... I believe that a few milk snakes have been found in Cochise County, but less than three have ever been recorded by an academic source. Andy Holycross found one, I think...And I know that there have been some anecdotal sightings of milk snakes in Cochise. Andy found his milk while doing the Massasauga study a few years back. I wouldn't expect to see one. :) chad

My 2005 lifelisters: Eastern Coachwhip Snake (Black Phase) Central Plains Milk Snake Intergrade Red/Central Plains Milk Intergrade Speckled/Desert Kingsnake Western Plains Garter Snake Sonoran Mountain Whipsnake Sonoran Gopher Snake Mojave Rattlesnake Great Plains Skink Western Slender Glass Lizard Mountain Short Horned Lizard Zebra-tailed Lizard Sonoran Spotted Whiptail Madrean Alligator Lizard Desert Box Turtle Great Plains Narrowmouth Toad Sonoran Toad Mexican Spadefoot Toad Some of my favorite herping moments of the year (in chronological order): 1. The startling discovery of a 5 1/2 foot long Eastern Coachwhip Snake (while showing Eitan Grunwald around) under a rock when my eyes and brain were adjusted to ringneck snakes and earth snakes. 2. Finding 4 adult Timber Rattlesnakes and a Racer under a corner of tin. That piece of tin had 8 snakes total under it and the tin pile produced an additional timber and a speckled/desert kingsnake as well. 3. Finding pairs of Central Plains Milksnakes with Chad as our guide. 4. Wading at night among the cottonmouths with herpfriend. 5. Finding my lifelist mojave rattlesnake. 6. Getting tagged five times by a gorgeous Sonoran Mountain Kingsnake. It's been an enjoyable year and fall migration in Missouri and Southern Illinois is still to come..