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() Reptiles & (Reptiles) Black Racer Broad Head Toads and (Amphibians) Eastern Fence Eastern Narrowmouth Toad Brown Water Snake Eastern Glass Lizard Eastern Spadefoot Toad *Canebreak Rattlesnake* Eastern Slender Glass Lizard The Canebreak is on the (Reptiles) Fowlers Toad Endangered List Five-Lined Skink *Cottonmouth* Oak Toad Coastal Plain Cooter Ground Skink Eastern Garter Snake Southern Toad Diamond Back Terrapin Six-Lined Racerunner Brimley’s Chorus Eastern Box Southeastern Five-Lined Skink Eastern Bullfrog Eastern Mud Turtle Crocodilians (Reptiles) Carpenter Frog Eastern Eastern Musk Turtle Costal Plain Frog Eastern Ribbon Snake Northern Red-Bellied Cooter Rare in this area due to the colder climate; they have been seen on occasion in the canal Cope’s Gray Treefrog and the Northwest River. Green Treefrog *Northern Copperhead* Snapping Turtle (Amphibians) Little Grass Frog Northern Scarlet Snake Eastern Northern Water Snake Northern Cricket Frog Striped Mud Turtle Greater Pickerel Frog Rainbow Snake Yellow-Bellied Slider Rat Snake Pine Woods Treefrog Mabee’s

Redbelly Snake *VENOMOUS* Southern Chorus Frog Many-Lined Salamander ⇒ Don't ever step, sit, or put your hands in an area Redbelly Water Snake you have not carefully looked at first! Southern Marbled Salamander

Rough EarthSnake ⇒ Use caution in areas with berries, small Spring Peeper Mud Salamander Rough Green Snake that eat the berries are food for snakes. Squirrel Treefrog Northern Duskey Salamander ⇒ Don’t get in striking range! Snakes can bite at a distance of 1/2 their body length or more. Redback Salamander

Smooth Earth Snake ⇒ Do not touch any live or dead snakes! Slimey Salamander

Southern Ringneck Snake Southern Dusky Salamander ⇒ If you are bitten by any snake; seek

Information taken from “A Night Hike” By Dr. Dean Bohon Bohon Dean Dr. By Hike” Night “A from taken Information Worm Snake professional medical attention immediately! Two-Toed Dismal Canal Trail Venomous Snakes Please don’t litter! Chesapeake, VA In Chesapeake, • From Greenbrier area Of all the snakes in this area, only

take I-64 ISMAL three are venomous. All of them are towards Suffolk. pit vipers; they have facial pits and Take Exit 291B for WAMP Rt. 17-SOUTH. vertical cat-like eyes. Follow Rt. 17 South beyond intersection ANAL w/Rt. 165 Turn RIGHT onto Rt. 17 Bus RAIL (George Washington Hwy.) About 1/2 mile to trail; REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS entrance on LEFT. Cope’s Gray Treefrog Photo by Marvin Powers Photo Kevin Kaul Kaul Kevin Photo • From Elizabeth City NC take Rt. 17 NORTH. Canebreak Rattlesnake Reptiles Turn LEFT onto 17 Bus oday there are 6,800 (George Washington Hwy.) About 1/2 mile to trail; T species on earth; the major entrance on LEFT. groups are crocodilians , turtles, lizards, and snakes. All reptiles are cold-blooded, which is why they warm Yellow-Belly Slider themselves in the sun, and have Take a break. . . . Recre-8!™ bodies covered in dry, horny scales. Explore the Some reptiles lay ; others give Great Dismal Swamp birth to live young. Copperhead from our 8.5 miles of safe, paved, multiuse trail! The only Amphibians one of it’s kind in the U.S. ike many other animals and , Rich in history, the Great Dismal L amphibians are vertebrates; Swamp has intrigued man creatures with a backbone and an for centuries. internal skeleton. Amphibians live part The trail is open year round from of their life in water and part on land. sunrise to sunset. This park contains rare and

Even those species that lay eggs on For more information contact endangered species! Cottonmouth land start life in a fluid-filled , Chesapeake Parks and Recreation Please proceed with care. at 382-6411. breathing through . Do not attempt to feed or It is illegal to capture or harm any By Outdoor Programmer, Kevin Kaul approach any wild animals! , even venomous ones!