However, the red-backed salamander has surmounted all possible obstacles to become D.C.’s official amphibian. Students from ...

A red-backed salamander that is a chocolate brown base color with white speckling and a distinctly bright red-orange stripe running the length of its back from its neck to the tip of its tail rest ...

A group of fourth grade students from Powell Bilingual Elementary School put on a reenactment of D.C. Law 25-251, the bill that would designate the red-backed salamander as D.C.’s official amphibian.

In eastern and southern portions of the state, red and longtail salamanders also occur. Sometimes it seems that every other log or rock on the forest floor harbors a redback salamander. These small ...

These are tiny spiders. Female redback spiders are about 0.4 inches (10 mm), while male redback spiders are much smaller, only about 0.11 to 0.16 inches (3 to 4 mm). Female redback spiders are ...