Creepy Crawlies

Decided to do some work with the plants on our back porch so I picked up our grill cover which had been sadly not performing its job all winter but was instead lying on the deck. Upon reinstating the grill cover to its rightful position, I spied this little beauty. I’m pretty sure he (or she) is an Arboreal Salamander (Aneides lugubris), though I’m no vertebrate taxonomist. Here you can see him with a couple of slugs who were also making their home in the dark, cool crevasses of the tarp.

I did a little more research and decided I don’t think he’s so cute anymore, and here’s why:

Crap, now I might have nightmares about salamanders invading the house from the porch.














