Other NON tortoise images of things I find in my backyard

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A short moving image of a Flat Head worm, creepy and interesting at the same time.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/cnqarg3dbv3uced/2015-03-30 13.59.11.mp4?dl=0

A still of the same worm.

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A gopher snake cruising through. Happy to see it, we have gophers.
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And some funny lizard looking thing, and yeah, that was not in my backyard.
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That flat head worm is amazing, never seen one before. Do you get these in your garden/yard? Can you feed them to your torts?
 

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That flat head worm is amazing, never seen one before. Do you get these in your garden/yard? Can you feed them to your torts?
Yeah, that exact one was in my backyard. Apparently they eat snails and other worms, including other flat head worms. I had seen some in Viet Nam a few years ago. I didn't know they were here in the US, but I guess so. Wikipedia indicates there are some native and some introduced here in the US. I didn't take the time to key it out, but it looks like a native one?
 

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I have seen those flat head worms here a few times in various parts of the garden. There's all sorts of fun creepy crawlies here for me to admire on a daily basis. :<3:
 

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Well as a child I searched high and low in the wilderness for a stag beetle, and never succeeded. Today in my own back garden we found this baby stagbeetle. Well I think it is. Are these endangered. Photo is not brilliant.
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Black rat snakes are pretty much the only snake I find here even though there are lots of native species... Don't have much luck finding snakes.:rolleyes:
 

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No, actually surprisingly all the ones I've caught this year haven't offered to bite and usually they are pretty aggressive, especially the larger ones. They can get quite large. Last year I caught a five or six footer.
 
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