A little redback salamander or two, or three, or four, or more, could be in your back yard right now and you would never know it, said photographer and naturalist David Liebman.

Eastern red-backed salamanders have a similar lifestyle to the spotted: the adults spending their time under logs and the wet leaves of the forest floor, hunting for small invertebrates.

“The red-backed salamander’s red stripes emulate the D.C. flag,” said Milo Evans Snyder. The students also told the council there are far more red-backed salamanders in D.C. than there are ...

When my kids were little, we always looked for red-backed salamanders, and back then, almost 30 years ago, I could believe those statistics. They were everywhere.

Red-backed salamanders outweigh all the bigger critters. This northern forest species is so common that its biomass would outweigh all the large mammals and birds in its habitat combined.

In contrast, the small (2-4 inches) red-backed salamander, typical of many members of the genus Plethodon, hunts for insects and worms on the forest floor on wet evenings after a summer rain, ...

DORRANCE TWP. – The small redback salamander was weightless in my hand. But in the forest, it weighs a ton. Redback salamanders are so abundant in our forests that their biomass (combined weight ...

When my kids were little, we always looked for red-backed salamanders, and back then, almost 30 years ago, I could believe those statistics. They were everywhere.