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Bess Beetle
The Bess Beetle is a black and shiny wood-eating insect that exhibits family care - adults prepare decaying wood for their larvae by chewing it. 
| Dave Even our bus driver was flipping rocks. 
Longicauda
| The Longtail Salamander has a tail that accounts for more than half of its total length. 
Still Searching
| A number of students began finding salamanders. 
Doubletime
| A young Red Salamander with a Southern Two-lined Salamander. 
Lungless
| Although they live entirely land, Slimy Salamanders have no lungs. Instead, they breathe through their skin. In order to breathe, they must stay moist. 
Complicated Creature
| The Red Eft is an immature phase of the Red-spotted newt. The usual life cycle of this species includes three distinct post-hatching stages: aquatic larva, terrestrial (juvenile) eft, and aquatic adult. 
Secretive Snake
| This Midwest Worm Snake (the first of three that were found) was under a log in the creek's floodplain. |