Yesterday I came across near a dozen different salamanders in different places as I was moving rocks around. This kind of salamander doesn't spend any time in water. The salamander pictured was found with a large number of egg clusters (pictured below), but it is way late for this salamander's eggs to be around and the eggs did not look like ones I've seen before, so I'm not sure what to make of the eggs. I'll have to go back and take a look in a week and see if the eggs have developed any.
Yes, do check it out. I've never heard of a salamander laying eggs not in the water. But what do I know?
ReplyDeleteI week later the eggs were smaller and so I suspect they were left over from the spring or were really late and didn't survive the frost. But this type of salamander does actually lay eggs in the earth, not water, and spends its entire life on land.
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