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A long, hot hike for Heloderma. Vine Snakes and Tropical Deciduous Forest Tortoises. Boa Constrictors on the verandah.

The Festive Moth, Dipthera festiva	Undientified pyralid moth.	A tattered Eusarca falcata (Geometridae)	Unidentified moth.
Unidentified pyralid moth.	Emerald Moth, Synchlora frondaria (Geometridae)	Bird Poop Moth, Acontia behrii (Noctuidae).	Smilisca baudinii, the Mexican Treefrog.
Buddies!	La Ranita del Rancho Acosta.	Another one, sleeping it off after a night of bugs and tequila.
another one.	Brick-pile Ctenosaur at Rancho Acosta.	Another DOR boa from the Navajoa blacktop	Kris made a great spot of this Oxybelis from the car!
Brown Vine Snake, Oxybelis aeneus	Ctenosaur at the gate to La Sierrita.
La Sierrita preserve.	The Hyundai Performance Team!	Starting the long, hot hike up the mountain....	Anaxyrus punctatus along the way
	Barranca Whiptail, Aspidoscelis costata barrancorum	Beauty Spot - Tropical Deciduous Forest!	in situ shot of a Boa constrictor imperator
		Scale detail	Still Life With Machete'
CJ takes five at La Casa del Campesino.	Shaun in the 'good' chair		Perro por debajo de la mesa.
	wow.
			Desert Tortoise shells
	ah, good place for some cervesa frias! Unfortunately, we had none at hand.	Mexican Gray Cracker, Hamadryas februa	Mexican Gray Cracker, Hamadryas februa
South end of a Whiptail going north.	Tim spotted this TDF Tortoise (Gopherus cf. sinaloae)	He ain't playin'.	Blurry picture of two more tortoises tucked under a huge boulder.
Tortoise den.	Tim's tortoise came out a little.	Plastron detail.	Gaby looks for more tortugas.
Home of the Sierra Madre Tortoise. We ain't in Arizona anymore, Toto.	The guys have another Beaded Lizard.
	Home of the Beaded Lizard (and Sierra Madre Tortoise).	I had my ass handed to me by that mountain hike and I'm not ashamed to say so.	After a long, hot sweaty climb and around in pursuit of these tortoises, this one shows up right outside the ranch house! Unafraid, too!
	Where baby cactuses come from.	Ctenosaur in the punkin patch.	Classic Oxybelis pose.
			Leaving the ranch house behind in the back of the truck.
Fasten yer seatbelts amigos!	ground up and in the freezer!	That's not a memorial marker next to that tree - someone is buried there.
Where Kris found the Vine Snake.	DOR Saddled Leafnose.		Huge DOR Boa, found close to Navajoa.
Another ochrophaeus.	Live boa on the road! Yay!	DOR Lyre	Tattered Saturniid moth on the table outside our room.
Young Smilisca baudinii in the rain.	Another DOR sinaloae	The rain brought out the Mexican Treefrogs....	Shaun with the little boa he found right outside his room!
Beauty!	Marbled Toad in the rain.		Mexican Treefrog, pictured as found.
Unidentified moth.	Check out the pin-striping on this Sinaloan Toad!

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