The red eft, the second stage of the Eastern spotted newt’s life cycle, is the most commonly seen salamander in the region ...

With the recent wet weather and high humidity the forest floor is a glow with Red Efts also known as the Eastern Spotted Newt. When I was growing up in the 1970’s there was a TV show called ...

It has been a long, wet, raw month of May and my outdoor time has been curtailed by rotten weather on the weekends. So, it ...

Enter the eastern newt, an amphibian with three different forms ... They also turn a vivid orange-red, with a line of black-ringed dots down their back. This is the red eft stage, which is ...

It s-scurries away as soon as it feels solid earth under those tiny toes. Red efts are the terrestrial stage of the Eastern newt, Notophthalmus viridescens, one of the many salamanders here in the ...

They’re the most abundant vertebrae in eastern American forests ... amphibians here that also eat mosquitoes, like the red-spotted newt. “The red-backed salamander’s red stripes emulate ...