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The Marine Toad is the largest of the frogs and toads in Florida. It's native to Central and South America.
[This three-toed toad rests on the sidewalk. It has gold and orange coloring on its bumps and around its eyes. Its underbody is buff colored.]

This appears to be a young Southern Toad.
[Two photos spliced together. The one on the left is the toad facing the camera while supported on its very skinny front legs. The toad is shades of brown and tan(across its parotid glands) with black spots scattered across its skin. The black spots each contain a couple of reddish warts. The photo on the right is the toad facing away from the camera.]

Green tree frog on the move
[The frog is climbing up the side of the siding on the hotel. The image is taken from below the frog, so its hindside is mostly visible. Its legs are blurred from its motion.]

The frog stopped to eye the distance to the tree across the sidewalk.
[The pads on its feet are securely attached to the building as its head and body are lifted exposing its left side. There is a rim of yellow color around its dark eye. Its upper half is green, but the lower half looks to be cream color.]

This Cuban treefrog was climbing the window of my room. Its bumpy skin and large toe pads helped me identify it. Its small size leads me to believe its a young frog.
[This is a partial side view and underside view of the frog stuck to the very top of the window pane. One dark eye surrounded by orange-brown lids is visible. The skin has a lot of very small bumps across the top. The webbing is visible on one back foot.]

Just a morning stroll across the Sam's Club parking lot for this frog.
[The frog has its front legs close to its body and flexed as if getting ready for the next leap. The back legs are almost completely stretched.]

These two frogs are now in froggy heaven.
[Two photos spliced together. On the left is a dead frog floating on its back in a puddle. It appears the skin color was yellow. It's front legs are twirled around it while the lower legs are floating spread out. The photo on the right is the smashed remains of a frog on pebbled pavement. It is lying on its back and appears a vehicle may have run over it. Mostly just the skin remains. ]

Two more frogs who took their last leap (There appear to be tire tracks on the one on the right.)
[Two photos spliced together. The frog on the left is on its back with a leg on the left fully stretched out. The leg on the right is completely bent toward the body. The upper legs are curved toward the head. This frog is still rather meaty looking and has yet really started decomposing. It lies on blackish pavement. The frog on the right is belly down. Both hind legs are completely stretched and the dark spots on the lighter skin is visible. The shorter front arms are both visible. The striped coloring on the main body is faintly visible. The body is much flatter than the rest of the body and the raised ridges on the back appear to be indentations from a vehicle tire running over it. The pavement around this frog has white and orange rock specks in the black. ]

This is how I found this dead bullfrog with its eyes partially open. (I have no idea how it ended up on the sidewalk in this pose.)
[The bullfrog is on its back on the sidewalk with its front legs up in the air and its entire underside exposed. This is a head-on view of the frog down at nearly ground level. The camera is up just high enough that most of its tan belly is visible. The tan is a strong contrast to the dark green on the legs. The pads at the tip of its 'toes' stick out like little tan globes. Its eyes are partially open.]

After a very heavy rain I found many frogs upside down and dead on the sidewalk including this one. (These are two views of the same frog.)
[Two photos spliced together. On the left is a top-down view of the frog lying on its back with its lower legs outstretched and its upper legs across its belly. The frog's underside is mostly a light brown color, but there is green on the upper parts of the longer legs (as if it is wearing pants). The image on the right is at ground level looking straight at the head of the frog. Both eyes are visible and its shorter legs across its chest are visible as they are slightly above the chest.]

This is another frog I found after the heavy rain.
[This image is at ground level looking straight at the left side of the frog near its head. One eye and ear are visible and the legs can be seen stretched out on the pebbled sidewalk. Its front legs are up in the air and mostly out of the image.]

The belly of a corn snake
[The belly of the partially coiled snake faces upward on the sidewalk. It is a checkerboard of black and white rectangles. The upper part of the snake is orange and tan rectangles and is only partially visible since that side faces the pavement. ]

Decomposing corn snake
[A close view down in the grass of the snake lying belly up amid the grass blades. The eye looks like a steel ball now in a socket too big for it. The snake appears dried out. The light and dark stripes across its belly are still visible. ]

Ghost Bulimulus - an invasive tree snail on a fence
[Two photos spliced together of the same snail. The one on the left is the snail moving upward. The long antenna are dark brown while the body is a caramel brown. The shells is dark brown at the tip and lighter at the wide part near the body. There is one short caramel brown antenna near the right long antenna. The photo on the right is the snail moving horizontally to the right. Both short antennas are visible between the much longer ones. The body is horizontal to the ground, but the shell is pointing toward what would be the 8 in a clock. It seems the shell is just attached like a hump in the middle of the back of the snail.]

I noticed this shell atop a hillside near one of the stormwater drainage canals. I've not yet been able to identify what creature once lived in it.
[Two photos spliced together. The one on the left is a front view of the spirals as they increase. The shell is mostly grey with thin dark stripes which go around the circumference of the shell. There is one wide tan section. The entire shell seems to have a glaze over it which is chipped or missing in places; not sure if it was original to the shell or sap from trees overhead. The photo on the right is a top down view with the think dark stripes more prominently displayed.]

No one is home here.
[Two photos spliced together. The one on the left is top-down view of the curled shell in the grass. There are lines which curve around the shell and lead to the opening. The view on the right is looking right into the opening of where a creature once lived.]

The head of whatever is creating this shell was hidden from view no matter which direction I photographed it, so I'm not sure what creature this is.
[This creature's head is buried in the green vertical stalk and not visible. The body which morphs into the shell spirals away from the stalk with each section successively smaller until it reaches a point. The shell is cream/tan color closest to the stalk and becomes progressively darker brown towards the tip.]

Shells seen in early September 2020.
[Two photos spliced together. One the left is one white shell attached to a wide green blade of a plant. The opening of the shell is a the top, but nothing is visible. The shell is parallel to the ground. On the right is a tan and cream-colored shell attached to a green blade and growing vertically toward the ground. The point of the shell closest to the ground is the lightest color.]

Must be a good spot to grow.
[Two shells, one just above the other, growing in the fold of a wide green blade of vegetation. the lower edge of the upper shell covers part of the upper edge of the lower shell. The lower shell is bigger and longer and more brown and white. The upper shell is more of a silver-grey and white.]

This tiny creature was in the middle of the sidewalk.
[One relatively flat circular shell with a dark brown stripe along the center of the outmost spiral of its growth. The shell is a tan grey color and rests on the sidewalk. The image is magnified enough to be able to see the small divots and striations in the concrete of the sidewalk.]

Two views of a black velvet leatherleaf slug which has four tentacles
[Two photos spliced together. On the left is a top down view looking at its four tentacles which appear to have an eye at the end of each of them. The tentacles and the upper part of the body are black while the front chest area is more brown. The view on the right is looking at its up-raised head and tentacles from the back as it has most of its body flat on the sidewalk.]

The top and underside of what remains of a Florida leatherleaf slug
[Two photos spliced together. On the left is the cream-colored underside of the thick upper layer and the main body of the slug. On the right is the backside of the slug with its brown coloring and two thick irregular black stripes from top to bottom.]

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