Northern Red Salamander

While digging up an old Terra-Cotta drainage pipe from a spring basin in the yard, we came across 2 Northern Red Salamanders. Beautiful coloration and from our research, found that it was possible that we had a male and a female. One was about 5 inches long and the other was about 6 inches long. The females are usually about 10% larger than the males. They are a bright red with black spots and their eyes are a bright yellow. They are a member of the lungless salamander family. Typical foods of the Northern Red Salamander include earthworms, centipedes, other salamanders and small frogs.

Breeding begins in September. Eggs, fifty to one hundred, are laid and hatch in the late fall. The larvae will remain in the water for up to three years before metamorphosis is complete.

lancesfinds,

it is good to hear about your Northern Red Salamanders and see your picture of them. Unfortunately they fall outside our scope for BugFiles, which covers only invertebrates (mainly insects and spiders).

Daves Garden has data bases for Plants, Bugs and most recently Birds. I hope that eventually it will introduce data bases for Mammals, Reptiles and Amphibians, but I don't think there are any immediate plans,

Kennedy
BugFiles Administrator

well, thanks for the reply... i did see you had things like crayfish and such so thought maybe it would fit in somewhere. It was unusual fop us to find this type around here usually the long tailed or a couple of other types were seen around here but not these. If you need to delete this thread I understand, thank you for leaving it up until I came back and was able to read your post.

We accept all invertebrates in BugFiles and that includes crustaceans like crayfish, but no vertebrates!