"These do have a pretty squishy butt" I love how you went out of your way to acknowledge, and display, the squishiness of a bug's butt, which nobody was asking about the squishiness of lol It was cute though
The only squish I need to know about is if it’s a fluff butt, so dogs or cats, but never is a bug butt cute enough to squish. I appreciate that he thinks they’re cute enough to fluff
One day, when I retire, I'd love to make nature exploring a common hobby. I appreciate your respect of the wildlife you encounter. This was a fun and educational video. Thanks!
Hi there, life long Oregonian here, I have collected, kept and bred RB’s over the years. They will bite, very uncommon, but they will. They do not strike they just sort of casually latch onto you and chew a little. I spent time in the early 90’s helping Richard Hoyer with field research, learned a lot from that excellent man.
I mentioned this before, but I love your polarized vocabulary. You managed to put the genus species of a bug and “twerking” in the same paragraph and sound professional. 😂
Love these videos. The U.S is so vast with an amazing variety of wildlife comparatively to the U.K. That Western Longwing Katydid almost looks like it was carved out of stone
i grew up in oregon, on the temperate rainforest side of the cascades, and saw a couple of rubber boas while growing up! they really are incredible snakes.
i had a jersulem cricket get into my parents' garage while i was visiting once, lost track of it, and then found it again because it started thwacking itself against the floor. apparently it thought there were chick crickets in the garage that was also my first time seeing a live one in person (i'd seen ONE before, dead and encased in a plastic bubble in a museum) and it was very surprising to me how thicc they are. i ended sweeping him back out onto the street with a broom. hope he found some of those chick crickets, idk
I had no idea that the Rubber snake or poop snake existed! It's a cute little guy too, and looks like their skin is too big for them. I also like the fact that it's so chill when you pick it up. It's be a nice snake to have as a pet. But, for beauty I think the gopher snake is by far the winner, the markings on them are insanely beautiful! I also like the wandering Garter snake too, I've never seen one with spots , the only grater snakes I see in my neck of the woods are the ones with yellow and red stripes down the length of their bodies.
I use to go up into the southern mountains in Montana and catch these as a kid. Very friendly snakes. Not one to keep in captivity, but they would be happy to wrap around your wrist and just hang out there all day.
Very cool that ur in oregon! I was in the desert here earlier this summer and saw some scorpions, camel spiders, and gopher snakes. Wish we had seen a rubber boa though!
In 2017 along Black Canyon rd where it crosses HWY 84 in Oregon, at dusk, I witnessed a emergence of some kind of large crickets. It had been a very hot 100f+ July day. The highway, underpass and flat rocky area all around had a moving carpet of 2" long meaty blackish insects that looked like Jerusalem crickets only about 2-3x larger and with startling contrasting eye color (don't remember what color). The more that were run over the more that crawled onto the road attracted to the carnage. I really wouldn't have wanted to pass out on the ground there. I've tried looking these up on google but only found images of pale straw-colored ones that hatch out in Utah. These appeared different, namely for their creepy-cartoonish faces and dark color. I read the Utah ones tend to do this after a particular hot day every year or few years and will eat crops there. There wasn't much but short weeds and wild grass where these were at. I'd love to see you do a video about them someday and explain what exactly they are.
It's weird how you mention critters ranging in "California, Oregon, British Columbia" but just skipped right over Washington only mentioning them for the rubber boa itself lmao
I live up in the okanagan valley of British Columbia Canada, and just did my yearly round of Northern Scorpion hunting. It was a rainy day sitting at about 10 degrees celsius and still was able to find scorpions out at night though very sluggish. They tend to gravitate towards clay banks that are south facing in this region. There are actually a few species of solifugid up here as well, though they are a lot more uncommon
Arkansas vegetable gardeners talk about a rubber boa but I don't think it's the same as yours. They say when you encounter a rubber boa in your garden if you try to chop it with your hoe the hoe will merely bounce off the snake as if it war a car radiator hose. I don't know what they were talking about and it may only be a legend. But in Arkansas it is a struggle to keep your feet away from cottonmouths, copperheads, and gentle 6' long blacksnakes. I moved from Arkansas to Israel for a year and when I would walk to my job in my turkey house a 6' long blacksnake would come out of the bushes and slither along beside me for some ways every morning for about a month. We were fellow commuters going to our job together. A snake can smile by lifting its head so the upturned corner of its mouth shows. We were normally about 3' apart but since blacksnakes are absolutely not harmful I had no fear whatsoever. 10 years later in Dallas I was looking at a book on Israeli wildlife: Israel doesn't have 6' long blacksnakes. My friend was a cobra.
I have found many in the mountains of Northern Utah. I kept one for a couple weeks once. Do you think it's the same or a subspecies? It's in the northern Great basin.
Would love to have a rubber boa as a pet, but would prefer to not be taking from the wild, and not many people actually breed them, so are a harder to find creature.
Ive only come across your channel 3 times now but with each video im very impressed by how much i learn about the animals as well as your vocublary. Your channel is severley underatted, truly hope your channle grows much larger and youve definitely earned a new subscriber!!!!👍💯
There was noise there though, it's just very low volume. It sounded like someone rubbing two small pieces of metal together, like two keys or something.
Hello, I hope this finds you well! I came across your youtube channel and I have been watching all the videos over and over again for the last two day. I just wanted to say that it’s truly amazing what you do. Also, the way that you present your content it’s professional, knowledgeable and extremely enjoyable and helpful for nature loves like me. I really hope you keep doing what you love and the way you are doing it. Maybe you are not aware but you touch many lives along the way, inspiring them, helping them to gain knowledge and giving them a joy time. All the above and much more is a wonderful contribution to this world and I just wanted to say THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 Looking forward to watch and learn from you next adventures!!! Pablo Dona
Bro what are you going to do if you sneak up on bigfoot out there lol. I noticed over in west Texas the common brown scorpion loves to group up around and under cardboard boxes. I had a job in Abilene, and we couldn't set a box down for more than a few nights and they would be 5 to 10 of them all different sizes.
These guys are illegal to keep where I live, but I just set up areas for them to live outside on my property. They get a spot to congregate and breed, while helping me control the rodents. Win-win. They're awesome, and super tame even though they're wild.
I found a rubber-boa at my grandma's house once. I was super excited, because usually I could only find garters. They're very gentle and cute lil' guys :)
I remember being surprised and concerned about a 2 foot rubber boa that I found in MT in November, but despite being slowed down in the frosty cold, it seemed fine and went on its way.
I live in California and saw a really green one I believe it was a rubber boa. Unless it was a different snake but definitely it looked alot like this one it was near the beach. Also was lucky enough to see the veryy rare legless lizard thats white its really rare and supposedly only found in my small town im not sure if its that true but iv not seen much more details about them.
"These do have a pretty squishy butt" I love how you went out of your way to acknowledge, and display, the squishiness of a bug's butt, which nobody was asking about the squishiness of lol
It was cute though
"Nobody was asking" I was. :(
most important part fr fr
These are facts we need to know 😁
@@ShadeKirby500 Me too
The only squish I need to know about is if it’s a fluff butt, so dogs or cats, but never is a bug butt cute enough to squish. I appreciate that he thinks they’re cute enough to fluff
The cricket was kind of freaky until you called it a potato bug, then it became cute
Squishy butt
na that thing was creepy
@@unrealmagic6519he’s got a squishy striped butt though
Hearing you say "twerking on the soil" unironically woke me up
I was wondering if I heard that right. 😂 They we’re doing it before it was cool. Ok…it was never cool.
Wtf bro. I mean I'm not judging, but still
1:01
Lol I rushed to the comments as soon as I heard it.
Literally thought you were my brother as I saw your pfp lol. He uses the same one
One day, when I retire, I'd love to make nature exploring a common hobby. I appreciate your respect of the wildlife you encounter. This was a fun and educational video. Thanks!
I support you with that goal. Hold on to it.
Hi there, life long Oregonian here, I have collected, kept and bred RB’s over the years. They will bite, very uncommon, but they will. They do not strike they just sort of casually latch onto you and chew a little. I spent time in the early 90’s helping Richard Hoyer with field research, learned a lot from that excellent man.
as soon as i saw its face i could picture that haha. they look so friendly!
I mentioned this before, but I love your polarized vocabulary. You managed to put the genus species of a bug and “twerking” in the same paragraph and sound professional. 😂
and squishy butt
Followed with a squishy butt boop. Love this guy.
man I love how casually you just reach down and scoop 'em up, great video
I'm so happy I found this channel, it's some of the best, comfiest stuff to watch out there. Thank you for making them!
Thank you very much. :D
musk snakes are such divas, usually harmless and great actors
Love these videos. The U.S is so vast with an amazing variety of wildlife comparatively to the U.K.
That Western Longwing Katydid almost looks like it was carved out of stone
i grew up in oregon, on the temperate rainforest side of the cascades, and saw a couple of rubber boas while growing up! they really are incredible snakes.
so cute!! their eyes are very adorable and charming
Hearing you give all of these facts about rubber boas in a serious tone and then hearing "poop snake" in the same sentence has been cracking me up.
The Rubber Boas are so cool very smooth looking as well!
Love your videos dude, got introduced to you through that centipede video. Learn a lot watching this kinda stuff
Thank you. :D
Dude, garter snakes are fast. I live in Washington, we have them here too. The fact that you CAUGHT one, let alone handled it is impressive to me.
This has the vibe of spontaneously feeling productive late at night, so instead of sleeping you entertain intelligence and knowledge.
i had a jersulem cricket get into my parents' garage while i was visiting once, lost track of it, and then found it again because it started thwacking itself against the floor. apparently it thought there were chick crickets in the garage
that was also my first time seeing a live one in person (i'd seen ONE before, dead and encased in a plastic bubble in a museum) and it was very surprising to me how thicc they are. i ended sweeping him back out onto the street with a broom. hope he found some of those chick crickets, idk
Yesssss! Thank you! I’ve wanted to see this video for so long!
I had no idea that the Rubber snake or poop snake existed! It's a cute little guy too, and looks like their skin is too big for them. I also like the fact that it's so chill when you pick it up. It's be a nice snake to have as a pet. But, for beauty I think the gopher snake is by far the winner, the markings on them are insanely beautiful! I also like the wandering Garter snake too, I've never seen one with spots , the only grater snakes I see in my neck of the woods are the ones with yellow and red stripes down the length of their bodies.
I hope you can continue with these videos and also further explore other countries.
10/10 the video and commentary quality.
I use to go up into the southern mountains in Montana and catch these as a kid. Very friendly snakes. Not one to keep in captivity, but they would be happy to wrap around your wrist and just hang out there all day.
Been binging your videos the last 3hrs. Have to say it looks like a ton of fun exploring and finding these creatures.
I live in central Oregon. Love finding rubber boas, very cute and sweet snakes. Never heard anyone call them 'poop' snakes lol.
When are you gonna make another mantis video
what camera are you using? the close ups are really nice, sharp detail.
4:00 Some kind of diving beetle?
Very cool that ur in oregon! I was in the desert here earlier this summer and saw some scorpions, camel spiders, and gopher snakes. Wish we had seen a rubber boa though!
Fantastic video! I love this! I will look to find these snakes for my property, and not fret as much on potato bugs. Can't wait to see more.
In 2017 along Black Canyon rd where it crosses HWY 84 in Oregon, at dusk, I witnessed a emergence of some kind of large crickets. It had been a very hot 100f+ July day. The highway, underpass and flat rocky area all around had a moving carpet of 2" long meaty blackish insects that looked like Jerusalem crickets only about 2-3x larger and with startling contrasting eye color (don't remember what color). The more that were run over the more that crawled onto the road attracted to the carnage. I really wouldn't have wanted to pass out on the ground there. I've tried looking these up on google but only found images of pale straw-colored ones that hatch out in Utah. These appeared different, namely for their creepy-cartoonish faces and dark color. I read the Utah ones tend to do this after a particular hot day every year or few years and will eat crops there. There wasn't much but short weeds and wild grass where these were at. I'd love to see you do a video about them someday and explain what exactly they are.
It's weird how you mention critters ranging in "California, Oregon, British Columbia" but just skipped right over Washington only mentioning them for the rubber boa itself lmao
I live up in the okanagan valley of British Columbia Canada, and just did my yearly round of Northern Scorpion hunting. It was a rainy day sitting at about 10 degrees celsius and still was able to find scorpions out at night though very sluggish. They tend to gravitate towards clay banks that are south facing in this region. There are actually a few species of solifugid up here as well, though they are a lot more uncommon
Very nice vid, lots of the same critters up in central eastern Washington
Very nice finds! I love rubber boas, but I've never heard them called poop snakes before. I'll be sure to add it to my vocab.
Arkansas vegetable gardeners talk about a rubber boa but I don't think it's the same as yours. They say when you encounter a rubber boa in your garden if you try to chop it with your hoe the hoe will merely bounce off the snake as if it war a car radiator hose. I don't know what they were talking about and it may only be a legend. But in Arkansas it is a struggle to keep your feet away from cottonmouths, copperheads, and gentle 6' long blacksnakes.
I moved from Arkansas to Israel for a year and when I would walk to my job in my turkey house a 6' long blacksnake would come out of the bushes and slither along beside me for some ways every morning for about a month. We were fellow commuters going to our job together. A snake can smile by lifting its head so the upturned corner of its mouth shows. We were normally about 3' apart but since blacksnakes are absolutely not harmful I had no fear whatsoever. 10 years later in Dallas I was looking at a book on Israeli wildlife: Israel doesn't have 6' long blacksnakes. My friend was a cobra.
Me: I wonder why they call it a 'poop snake'
Also me: why is he just casually picking up that pile of poo-... Oh, now I get it
I love you and the way you speak so so much but my brother in christ, you're not beating the autism allegations 😂❤ from a fellow autistic
You keep grabbing all these scorpions bare handed. Aren't these poisonous?
Why are they called "poop snakes"? Is it just an appearance thing or what?
Either way, hilarious vernacular 😂
I have found many in the mountains of Northern Utah. I kept one for a couple weeks once. Do you think it's the same or a subspecies? It's in the northern Great basin.
I live in rubber boa country, wouldn’t mind finding a few of the derpy lil ones
Wow. Fantastic video. Great little nocturnal expedition.
I found a rubber boa when i was out vamping on mercer Island in washington. Calmest snake ive ever handled in the wild.
I love bugs and snakes. Thanks for the video, it was fascinating.
Central oregon?? I'm like a few hours away! I didn't know any of these were here!
Would love to have a rubber boa as a pet, but would prefer to not be taking from the wild, and not many people actually breed them, so are a harder to find creature.
Good morning, General. I have subscribed.
I am always extremely happy to see a garter snake. They're very well behaved.
I love the way this dude yoinks Critters right off the ground
I used to live in central Oregon and never saw a scorpion. I guess I need to look more at night!
never, ever seen a garter look like exactly like a bull snake, im used to seeing em with stripes
I dont like that scorpions glow in the dark.
Just walking around finding friends. What a life.
I wish I could go out in the desert and find cool bugs
I live a houre away from portland thx for showing me animals i never new where around me
Ive only come across your channel 3 times now but with each video im very impressed by how much i learn about the animals as well as your vocublary. Your channel is severley underatted, truly hope your channle grows much larger and youve definitely earned a new subscriber!!!!👍💯
Poo Snakes? I loved those dudes in Blue Dragon.
Thanks for these, totally enjoy them.
When I saw "Poop Snake" I thought it was gunna be a Hognose 😂
Do you live in Oregon? Can you take me with uou next time? ❤
6:41 I laughed way harder then I should of when it made no noise...
There was noise there though, it's just very low volume. It sounded like someone rubbing two small pieces of metal together, like two keys or something.
I came for the ‘poop snake’ yet got so much more. 🤙
Great video, once again!
Great footage and Info today!! Loving the videos so much! Keep it up!
:D
Tkank you. Excellent video.
th-cam.com/video/7XfJCyFalx8/w-d-xo.html What a lovely call.
Wow the moths love your flashlight
Hello,
I hope this finds you well!
I came across your youtube channel and I have been watching all the videos over and over again for the last two day. I just wanted to say that it’s truly amazing what you do. Also, the way that you present your content it’s professional, knowledgeable and extremely enjoyable and helpful for nature loves like me. I really hope you keep doing what you love and the way you are doing it. Maybe you are not aware but you touch many lives along the way, inspiring them, helping them to gain knowledge and giving them a joy time. All the above and much more is a wonderful contribution to this world and I just wanted to say THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Looking forward to watch and learn from you next adventures!!!
Pablo Dona
Bruh,,You felt a bugs ass!😂
Thats one demon looking potato bug
Daww! Those poop snakes are cute!
love this content!
This is the content i go on youtube for!!
Thats not the pitatoe bug i grew up seeing
I love your content! 😊
Just discovered your channel and the way youre walking through Nature just picking up creatures gets me. 😂
MY FAVORITE SNAKE" Cheers from Idaho!
Bro what are you going to do if you sneak up on bigfoot out there lol. I noticed over in west Texas the common brown scorpion loves to group up around and under cardboard boxes. I had a job in Abilene, and we couldn't set a box down for more than a few nights and they would be 5 to 10 of them all different sizes.
These guys are illegal to keep where I live, but I just set up areas for them to live outside on my property. They get a spot to congregate and breed, while helping me control the rodents. Win-win. They're awesome, and super tame even though they're wild.
I found a rubber-boa at my grandma's house once. I was super excited, because usually I could only find garters. They're very gentle and cute lil' guys :)
We call those "child of the earth."
The potato bugs are fucking adorable they look so friendly shaped despite being bitey 🤣
I remember being surprised and concerned about a 2 foot rubber boa that I found in MT in November, but despite being slowed down in the frosty cold, it seemed fine and went on its way.
Dude sounds like the video is sped up
The best content on youtube🤩 seriously!
Thank you so much, Shane.
The Rubber Boa is my favorite snake to see up here in NE Washington
Saw several nice agates on the ground in this video. . . You're in the right area for 'em. :)
Love the videos!
Poop snake, I like it!
those snakes are so cute fr
I live in California and saw a really green one I believe it was a rubber boa. Unless it was a different snake but definitely it looked alot like this one it was near the beach.
Also was lucky enough to see the veryy rare legless lizard thats white its really rare and supposedly only found in my small town im not sure if its that true but iv not seen much more details about them.
So it is a boa that’s awesome
After scrolling through TH-cam, I found your video and it is high quality, thorough, and informative, you should be proud of this video sir.
5:22 mind explaining difference between snake venom vs poison please?
If you bite (eat) it and it kills you, it’s poisonous. If it bites you and it kills you, it’s venomous.
Venomous snakes bite YOU and you get sick. Poisonous snakes have to be bitten BY YOU to make you sick.
You rock man
So many pretty snakes! I love them all. ❤
Nice video!
great vid
I always called them grasshoppers
Thank you it did look soft and squishy!