My dog may have saved my life while herping

[Sonya610]

I've found at least 75 coppers this year. This is a special year for a certain cicada that only emerges like every 13 years and it is one of there favorite snacks.

Wow...good to know! We just had the little 13 year cicada's here, incredibly noisy little guys; sadly they are pretty much gone now.

Must be a real feast for the animals that like to snack on them, when they started departing for the afterlife there were dead cicada's everywhere! Sheesh even ending up in the isles inside the grocery store.

One in my backyard:

[BLUESIRTALIS]

Here is a pic of the spotted morph.

[ConcinusMan]

Freaky

[guidofatherof5]

Here is a pic of the spotted morph.

Very beautiful.

[BLUESIRTALIS]

Very beautiful.

I'm wanting to buy a few, but the price is still way up there. When they come down to around a $1000 then i am going to buy a male because it is a codom trait.

[d_virginiana]

I'm wanting to buy a few, but the price is still way up there. When they come down to around a $1000 then i am going to buy a male because it is a codom trait.

Wow, never thought about owning one. We usually try to stay away from them
I've seen a few that looked like that spotted one before, and always wondered if they were actually copperheads since they looked so different from the ones we usually see and there were never many of them.

[Sonya610]

I've seen a few that looked like that spotted one before, and always wondered if they were actually copperheads since they looked so different from the ones we usually see and there were never many of them.

See now you shouldn't have said you have "seen a few". Just waited until you saw another one and you could sell it to Infernalis for a cool grand!

[d_virginiana]

See now you shouldn't have said you have "seen a few". Just waited until you saw another one and you could sell it to Infernalis for a cool grand!

Darnit, missed my chance!

[RedSidedSPR]

I have a lot of copperheads at my house.. I love 'em but it's not the best thing to have... but i don't kill 'em so i have to keep them.

Awesome dog! mine likes herping with me too.

[Sonya610]

ONE dog may be great for herping. A pack of dogs is just the opposite. The 2-3 times they have found a snake in the yard (that I know of) the pack of them barking at it and dashing at it means I never get to see what it is (just a glimpse) especially if it is in tall grass.

I am too busy grabbing them and dragging them into the house in case the snake is venomous, when that's done and I race back out to see the snake for myself it is always long gone. : (