Hi, with a few pics & ID?'s

[krismunk]

Awesome pictures! Looking forward to any new ones you post in the future!

Thanks, but where? I've got pictures here from Denmark, Israel, Croatia, Malta, Sweden, Greece & Italy + anywhere I might have forgotten :wink:

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The heck is this thing? stick-insect? Leaf-insect? Gladiator? At first i thought i was looking at a predatory katydid, but the anatomy is all out of whack, haha

It is a predatory katydid, species Saga ephippigera.

 

[josh_r]

Is that Bitis perengueyi I see back there???

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A "small" assortment of herps ;-)

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Bitis perengueyi??

 

[krismunk]

Is that Bitis perengueyi I see back there???

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Bitis perengueyi??

Cerastes vipera

 

[krismunk]

a few more...

 

[Hanska]

Does the picture lie or is this the blue colorform of Vipera berus?
I've once seen one and it was on the side of the road dead. Hands down the most beautiful snake ever.

 

[krismunk]

I wouldn't call it blue.

It's a rather typical beautiful recently shed silver and black spring male. I suppose maybe the bright green, long and extremely lush grass (somewhat unusual surroundings for berus) acccentuate some colours and lend a more bluish hue to the snake in the picture.

On page one there is a picture of a male that really was blue / green - gorgeous.

 

[Montgg]

Update please ;D

 

[krismunk]

OK, I'll start digging...

 

[Montgg]

wow you are very lucky. is that a red europeon adder in this pic http://s300.photobucket.com/user/krismunk2/media/1_4.jpg.html

 

[krismunk]

wow you are very lucky. is that a red europeon adder in this pic http://s300.photobucket.com/user/krismunk2/media/1_4.jpg.html

Redder than most, at least