Herping in the Sugar Cane Fields around Hendry County Melissa Coakley, Ph,D Florida is a great place to live if you love snakes. In fact, as I sat down to write this today my husband Bill came into the house to tell me there was a snake in our front yard. It was already gone…
The Suncoast Herpetological Society Annual Everglades trip – 2010 Melissa Coakley, Ph.D [from October 2010] This past weekend Suncoast Herpetological Society participated in the 2nd annual Everglades trip! The fearless herping group consisted of myself, Bill, Doreen, Michele, and my friend Melody. We left on Saturday morning and we made it to Big Cypress Preserve at…
Creating Herping Opportunities While Traveling Melissa Coakley, Ph.D Vacation time is precious and it is usually well planned out for herping fanatics. As herpers we generally organize our trips around the weather, the season, and the moon phase. As a professor I have to plan my vacations around semester dates so I am limited for…
