i figured i would dig a critter one day

[CALDIGR2]

Sorry, but salamanders are completely harmless, unless you're a slug, worm, or small insect.[]

 

[Mihai]

Hey Mike, you don't have to feel sorry. You might be right regarding some of the salamanders, I know, on the other hand, that some are poisonous. The bright colour skin is a way to show predators that they will have at least a good long diarrhoea if they dare to eat them.

It's impossible to know everything. This unless, of course, you are Capsoda, which, as we all should know by now, is the NASA computer's name. Like Deep Blue.

Please check the link below and go to Handling chapter.

http://www.anapsid.org/sallies.html

 

[CALDIGR2]

I'm aware of the slight toxins that are secreted by some terrestrial salamanders, especially Ensatina. We have lots of really colorful ones out there, and I like to catch 'em. Tiger salamanders are a real favorite that will devour anything that they can cram in their mouth. Now's the time they are comin' out in CA.

 

[southern Maine diver]

I should start showing you some of the critters I find in the holes I dig underwater!!!! you never know if they're gone swim away or try to pull you in!!!![&:]

Wayne