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Nature at Your Door Frank Taylor
Добавлен 21 июн 2016
NATURE AT YOUR DOOR
This series describes nature as it unfolds through the seasons in the Appalachian mountains and the east coast region. Plants and animals that your might encounter in your backyard, neighborhood or local park or forest are highlighted as they emerge, flower, or become active. How to identify different plants and animals is explained and unique features of the organism's life history, biology, colonial uses and uses by native Americans as food or medicine is reviewed. The voice of video is directed toward young learners and the rich biology and history curriculum content engages learners of all ages and is a guide for teachers to create inquiry-based lessons. The goal is to engage children and families in exploring the world of nature just outside their door! It is biology content rich! With almost 40 years experience in biology teaching I cover many state and national science standards. I frequently include text, life science vocabulary, concepts and themes.
This series describes nature as it unfolds through the seasons in the Appalachian mountains and the east coast region. Plants and animals that your might encounter in your backyard, neighborhood or local park or forest are highlighted as they emerge, flower, or become active. How to identify different plants and animals is explained and unique features of the organism's life history, biology, colonial uses and uses by native Americans as food or medicine is reviewed. The voice of video is directed toward young learners and the rich biology and history curriculum content engages learners of all ages and is a guide for teachers to create inquiry-based lessons. The goal is to engage children and families in exploring the world of nature just outside their door! It is biology content rich! With almost 40 years experience in biology teaching I cover many state and national science standards. I frequently include text, life science vocabulary, concepts and themes.
You probably have toads around your house too! Here is how to find them!
We call them our "Deck Toads" and can find them every summer night if we go out and look with flashlights. The American Toad Anaxyrus americanus is common in our part of Virginia and across the east coast. Toads have two large parotoid glands that release bufo toxin that is toxic and distasteful to predators. Compared to other frogs and toads bufotoxin is relatively mild but still effective in protecting these toads.
see other toad videos from my channel:
Male toads sparring at the pond!
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Detailed Toad Natural history
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Mating frenzy as female arrives at the pond
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see other toad videos from my channel:
Male toads sparring at the pond!
ruclips.net/video/kTkgF79ImDc/видео.htmlsi=9j4P7xtcQcNi6KIx
Detailed Toad Natural history
ruclips.net/video/NWb9a7J3hzI/видео.htmlsi=JV-ggYixw7RQTpEpral
Mating frenzy as female arrives at the pond
ruclips.ne...
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Ant Trails: Everything you need to know about these ant highways!
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Ant Trails: Everything you need to know about these ant highways!
Saw Palmetto: Everything you should know: Natural History and Medical Science!
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Saw Palmetto: Everything you should know: Natural History and Medical Science!
Strangler Figs: What YOU need to know! Trees that strangle and kill!
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Strangler Figs: What YOU need to know! Trees that strangle and kill!
Pelican Rescue: Fish carcasses, hooks, and irresponsible pier fishing injures too many sea birds!
Просмотров 784Месяц назад
Pelican Rescue: Fish carcasses, hooks, and irresponsible pier fishing injures too many sea birds!
Everything you need to know: Florida Manatees (Trichechus manatus)
Просмотров 478Месяц назад
Everything you need to know: Florida Manatees (Trichechus manatus)
Best known to bite vigorously when handled! Northern Water Snake: Nerodia sipedon
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Best known to bite vigorously when handled! Northern Water Snake: Nerodia sipedon
The grand-kiddo's and I come face to face with a Red Corn Snake on a Tennessee Trail!
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The grand-kiddo's and I come face to face with a Red Corn Snake on a Tennessee Trail!
What would you do? See how I handle this Black Rat Snake encounter! (Pantherophis alleghaniensis)
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What would you do? See how I handle this Black Rat Snake encounter! (Pantherophis alleghaniensis)
Part 4 New York Appalachian Trail: Beaver Ponds!
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Part 4 New York Appalachian Trail: Beaver Ponds!
Part 3 Appalachian Trail Series: Serviceberry or Shadbush flowers before any leaves show!
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Part 3 Appalachian Trail Series: Serviceberry or Shadbush flowers before any leaves show!
Part 2 of New York Appalachian Trail series. Invasive Japanese Barberry. Berberis thumbergii
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Part 2 of New York Appalachian Trail series. Invasive Japanese Barberry. Berberis thumbergii
Part 1 of New York Appalachian Trail series. Skunk cabbage! Symplocarpus foetidus
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Part 1 of New York Appalachian Trail series. Skunk cabbage! Symplocarpus foetidus
In Switzerland??? How do you explain this? Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland!
Просмотров 3902 месяца назад
In Switzerland??? How do you explain this? Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland!
For real, this snake was right outside my door! In Ticino Switzerland. Green Whip Snake! Il Biacco!
Просмотров 6042 месяца назад
For real, this snake was right outside my door! In Ticino Switzerland. Green Whip Snake! Il Biacco!
Norway Spruce or European Spruce makes up the treeline in pure stands in Southern Swiss Alps!
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Norway Spruce or European Spruce makes up the treeline in pure stands in Southern Swiss Alps!
First Spring Flowers: Ticino Switzerland! Spring arrives at Lugano Lake/ Cascata del Botto
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First Spring Flowers: Ticino Switzerland! Spring arrives at Lugano Lake/ Cascata del Botto
On Florida's Maritime Islands: Diamond Back Rattlesnake fascinating facts!
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On Florida's Maritime Islands: Diamond Back Rattlesnake fascinating facts!
Cabbage Palm/Sabal Palmetto/Sable Palm: Everything you need to know about this AMAZING palm!
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Cabbage Palm/Sabal Palmetto/Sable Palm: Everything you need to know about this AMAZING palm!
Tarpon Springs Florida: Everything you need to know about NATURAL SPONGES!
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Tarpon Springs Florida: Everything you need to know about NATURAL SPONGES!
Over 350 species take refuge in Florida's Gopher Tortoise burrows! A keystone species!
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Over 350 species take refuge in Florida's Gopher Tortoise burrows! A keystone species!
Breath-taking hike to overnight at the Britannia Hut at almost 10,000 feet in the Swiss Alps!
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Breath-taking hike to overnight at the Britannia Hut at almost 10,000 feet in the Swiss Alps!
Lugano Lake, Switzerland: a lake imperiled.
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Lugano Lake, Switzerland: a lake imperiled.
Scorpions are native to Switzerland and Italy! Everything you need to know!
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Scorpions are native to Switzerland and Italy! Everything you need to know!
One of the most beautiful hikes in the world and the best in the Swiss pre-alps.
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One of the most beautiful hikes in the world and the best in the Swiss pre-alps.
High above Lugano Lake, Switzerland/Italy: Monte Bolgia delivers breath-taking views!
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High above Lugano Lake, Switzerland/Italy: Monte Bolgia delivers breath-taking views!
New life time record Via ferrata with 1600 feet of vertical granite wall!
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New life time record Via ferrata with 1600 feet of vertical granite wall!
The fascinating story of a Swiss Alpine Red Fox that owns a high elevation train station!
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The fascinating story of a Swiss Alpine Red Fox that owns a high elevation train station!
Climbing the Rostock Via Ferratta/Eiger North Face (from Kleine Scheidegg, Grindelwald Switzerland)
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Climbing the Rostock Via Ferratta/Eiger North Face (from Kleine Scheidegg, Grindelwald Switzerland)
The story of the amazing Alpine Ibex: a return from the brink of extinction!
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The story of the amazing Alpine Ibex: a return from the brink of extinction!
Great videos. My uncle used to live in Goshen and I'm from Monticello so I liked that you were in Orange County lol
WOW, Cool!❤
Here i Philippines, we used it for spider derby.
! Fun ! Can you tell me more about the spider derby? 🙂
@@natureatyourdoor . You can watched it here I. RUclips. Like rooster.
@arasseo_wakarimashita3904 send my a link my friend and I will certainly watch it! 😀
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Toads are cute. My little siblings love it when i catch the toads for them to look at.
They are! I am sure your siblings love that!
Ant baits by the foundation of your house will make these ants move back to their forefather’s forest in great numbers.
🤔 ....🙂👍
What a great show you have! I look forward to watching more episodes now that I'm subscribed!
Welcome aboard! Thank you! Check out my playlist for particular topics you might be interested in!
Alway loved seeing the indigo in Florida my favorite too, They kept the rattle snakes away from the house, but the rattle snakes never bothered much either …
Oh wow! I still need to discover my first indigo in the wild!
My son raise these worms have several trees good for fishing for cats
I hear from fisherman all the time telling me how great they are as bait!
I call them Indigo Snakes. I love snakes, and promote NOT KILLING THEM!! I also don't like the fact that where I live in Southwestern Appalachian's of North Carolina, people also kill the Eastern Diamond Back rattle snake and the Copperheads. No Water Moccasins up here. It tends to make mad when my son-in-law kills any snake he sees out here. Ive told him to leave them be. Ive also told him to call me, and I'd be happy to catch it and relocate it in a remote area away from people. We need these lovely creatures to help balance the environment.
The indigo snake is actually a different species but like black snakes can be very large in size! Venomous snakes can't seem to catch a break!
I raised a black snake with my chickens it never eat eggs or my chickens it eat rats, in the thrid year it was 6ft long 5 inchs around my neighbor had a small toco bell dog i guess the snake that it was a big rat and was hung on the side of their house looking in the window at the dog they freaked and needless to say they killed em and now i got to get another one they still think that snake just come out of nowhere i don't tell much to people .
Wow! Fascinating story...but with a sad ending! Thanks for sharing your regard and relationships with snakes! Cool!
Thanks for sharing this story...but a sad ending for your first snake. I enjoy hearing your tales of coexistence!
I have a resident toad on my back porch this year. Even the cats are chill with him. Good friends yo have with a plethora of wokf spiders and black and brown widows everywhere. I wish I a little toad army eating that bumper crop of arachnids this year.
It always fun to have a resident toad! Thanks for sharing!
Oh I'll swap you can have 3Kg cane toads and I'll have nornal toads.
Cane toads!! Omg ..where are you?
@@natureatyourdoor Queensland Australia 😅 someone back in 1936 or something went to Hawaii and decided we needed them.
I am 65 years old and, since my mid 20s, it has always been my habit to learn at least one new thing every day. I predict many student hours in front of your videos in the future. Thanks for posting these!
Ha! That is awesome ...I am learning everyday as well! Be sure to check out my playlists for more great content. I try to include lesser known and unique facts in every presentation!
That's awesome. Be sure to check out my playlists! I try to learn something new everyday as well...then share it on my channel!
Hi Frank, BTW you've beautiful house. I grew up in Florida in the 60s-70s. There were LOTS of all types of insects. Being a silly kid I got occasionally pinched (what I felt) by ladybugs and I didn't notice which species being a silly kid, but were probably the Asian species. Now fire ants {shudder} are beasties that are fierce and their sting was much worse than their pinch. Peace.
Thanks, actually designed the house on a piece of graph paper and brought that to building inspector and got a permit and built it myself. Insects..except fire ants are fascinating! Lol!
I've always picked up racers, Gartner's, and kings in the wild. Never been bitten. I've always returned them back to the spot I found them. ❤🐍
If you can pick up racers without a nip...YOU ARE the snake whisperer!
@@natureatyourdoor rat snakes, a whole different story, they like to bite!🐍💖
Had one under the crawl space of the house. It was huge. I wonder if they add on to older nests year to year?🐝
Nope..unless you are in a tropical environment that die out each year except for queens and then start over.
Yes, I've seen them, and they are much bigger than when I see them during the day!🐸
Lol! The big night toads!!I 😆😆🤣😂🤣
Where are these grey frogs found? I only have ever seen green tree frogs. I'm in Washington state!
Yes, alas, they are found only east of the Mississippi!
Please if you see a wild black rat snake and you are afraid of snakes. Please just let it be. They are your best friend.😊😊
Yes! Well said!
Hi Frank. Awsome . A black rats are totally awsome. They can sense your persona. I love them. Mine are very tame in my yard. I just pick them up. I have never been bitten by Frank or Freda. They had babies last year I baby black rats every where even in my basement. . They all get moved to my woodpile. Frank k is big enough I drape him across my shoulder and he just crawls off and over my neck an goes into my wood pile. 😊😊 God bless. Pennsylvania buddy Jeff. 😊😊
Love your Frank and Freda stories! Thanks for sharing!
Hi Frank awsome video. They are part of nature for sure. But when I'm mowing game lands herbacious openings and hit them . I don't like them very well. Their paper nest make the best wadding for blackpowder shot guns. . God bless Frank. Pennsylvania buddy Jeff. 😊😊
Oh nooooooo! Horrible to hit with a lawn mower! Aaaaaaggggghhhh! I have found many just the same way!
I’ve had a few 3ft or better females here in MN. We sometimes have them winter under our shed where it’s warmer. One spring I came home from work and there were about 20 sunning in our driveway. Good critters!
The numbers and dens of garters in the north are fascinating!
Hi. Frank...nice clip !!!
Thank you sir! I hope you will check out my snake playlist for more like this!
I ❤ every amphibian. I'm very curious to know what you affectionately call them?!😅
Lol...I know a lot of people enjoy naming their resident critters..not sure why but I don't seem to ever feel to do that! 🤔 lol..maybe I wasn't hugged enough as a child!
teeth? I thought they had bone ridges?
@RonGunsolus yes correct hard boney palate with some very sharp boney projections. I has on latch on to some soft skin on my hand and not let go. When I finally pried it off it left little drops of blood in the shape of upper and lower jaw from tooth like pricks in my hand.
What is the genus species which bloom white? 😊
Kalamia latifolia. Only color in native mountain laurel I see. ..not to be confused with the native Rhodendron that come in two colors plus variation between!
First of your videos I've watched when you said back when you taught biology I thought pretty cool for you to carry on teaching in youtube videos I'm 50 years old and I learned a little something about the garter snake I never knew I'm going to check out more of your videos for I'm quite sure I will learn more never to old to add a few wrinkles to the old brain thanks.
Wow, thanks. Yeah...lol...I am 67 now...enjoying sharing / teaching through my now worldwide network..6 million plus views...a bit larger out reach now annually compared to my 130 to 150 annually! Enjoy perusing my channel check out my playlist topics! Glad you found me!
Garter snakes actually do possess a mild neurotoxic venom, but they lack an effective means of delivering it so they are generally considered harmless to human beings.
Yes. Exactly!
Garter snakes actually do possess a mild neurotoxic venom, but they lack an effective means of delivering it so they are generally considered harmless to human beings.
Yes. EXACTLY.
Most of the time snakes, even the dangerously venomous ones, will only bite if they feel threatened, if you leave them alone and respect them, they will prefer to just go on their merry way, since snakes don't possess any limbs, they have to have some way to immobilize their prey, non-venomous snakes constrict their prey, venomous snakes inject venom into their prey, it actually takes time and effort for venomous snakes to replenish their supplies of venom so they don't waste it.
Well written thoughtful addition to the video! Thanks for sharing your knowledge and expertise!
I think i was in grade 1 when i brought a bucket of 13 garters to school for show and tell. The teacher left the room. Now i live in a place with garters , milk, and grass snakes. There are so many more amazing little friends on our property. I love your video.
Lol...tooooo funny! Love it! And thank you!
Sir, you are incorrect regarding the origins of this (and most other snakes,) scientific name. The term ophis, comes from the Greek, not Latin word for snake. Fidis, as it is pronounced in Greek (Φίδι,) literally means snake. As a proud Greek American, I felt it important to correct the error.
Yes. Sorry. My bad. Apologies for an off the cuff destruction of the beauty and history of scientific naming to all! ...no taxonomist here bad fascinated by the origin of scientific naming. Apologies for the callous butchering the name I did here! Appreciate your taking time to make the correction!
The wasp you showed while referring to hornets is not a hornet at all. It's dolichovespula maculata, a large above-ground nesting yellow jacket. The only true hornet in N. America is the Vespula Crabro, or European Hornet.
Ah! Thanks for the taxonomic clarification/correction. Appreciate your input!
Awesome!
Ha! Thank you!
Ive been bit u wont die just annoying
Lol...I had a tiny one on the side of trail that launch itself at my shoe ten or more times! Lol!
@@natureatyourdoor been handling reptiles since i was 8 im 44 now i love my scaled critters always just fascinated me parents thought was crazy
We have a few in our garden. My wife is afraid of them so she can't enjoy our garden. I don't want to hurt them so I do all the picking of herbs.
Lol. I fine solution!
Toxicous Fatalous 😊
??? 🤔 🙂
I found an orange salamander thought it was a rubber worm I was going to pick it up as soon as I got done raking. It was gone when I got done so I started rak8ng again and it appeared again I took off running.
Lol...they are so red orange that don't look real!
That triangular head cost a black snake his life on my dog walk as I though he might be a cottonmouth. Didn't really look like a cottonmouth but the triangular head fooled me. Wish I had not killed him as we have lots of rats.
Yeah...it throws a lot of people off! Be sure to teach your friends too!
I once saw a black snake whose belly was pink crawling between two plastic folding tables under the porch in East Texas.
Pink? More likely another species! A case of mistaken identity!
When I was about 14, I caught a garter snake and put it in a home-made cage. It seemed fairly calm, but a few days later, he bit me when I reached into the cage for him. My mother feared that he was venomous. I assured her he was not. Next day I had a mild fever, which I attributed to bacteria in his mouth, but evidently, I was the victim of his mild venom.
Or a little allergic reaction to proteins in Salvia as well.
I got so many garter snakes in my yard my brother wont visit in summer. Yes he is a pansy. I had a 3 footer nail me in the hand when younger. The teeth dont come out easy and was nice bloody wound. Handled them many times. Normally they dont bite. Stink when held. Terrible stink.
It is a terrible smell and that boney palate had some sharp points! Funny about your brother!
@@natureatyourdoor he is horrified at snakes. I just love them. Always have. I don't want to talk about spiders. Lol. We all have chinks in our armor.
Thank you! ❤❤❤
You're welcome 😊
I live in NE Tennessee where we don't have King snakes and have witnessed a large black snake swallowing a copperhead. It may not be common but it does happen
I will have to take your word for it.. but I am a bit skeptical...could it have been a black racer? But I also know...real life does not always follow the tenuous "rules" made up by biologists!
Collin's garter.
El Biacco! Native to Italy...did you watch complete wide screen episode?
I had a black racer grab hold of my hand once and also a diamondback water snake. Neither one of those wanted to let go, either. They did a little more damage. I bled pretty good for a moment from the water snake bite. It was a "biggun'"
I had same from a big ole black snake I miss handled! Bony palate is pretty sharp to keep rodent prey from wiggling away! Thanks for share!
Cute little guy, from Pennsylvania to.
??? Pennsylvania?
@@natureatyourdoor Darlington, Beaver County. By the train crash.
@@galedavis3198 got it!
Create video I have a huge catalpa tree that covers my neighbor's backyard. 3 of them actually. Love my catalpatry for the shade
They are beautiful trees!
Hi Frank from Pennsylvania. You stumped me. I've never have seen this snake before. Resembles a baby black snake but doesn't have the black checkers. As Always awsome video. God bless. Jeff
Lol! It is El Biacco...Eastern European species! A trick!
@@natureatyourdoor good trick. God bless. This north man is about to melt in the heat. .
I've found a large number of Garter Snakes this year! A lot of black & gold ones but I've seen 3 turquoise and black ones!
Sounds like some beautiful snakes for sure!