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E Bostick Avenue, Lakeland, Georgia.

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Oak Grove Church Road, Lakeland, Georgia.

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Stockton School, Lanier County

Stockton School, Lanier County

The Spanish influence is unexpected for South Georgia. Located in Stockton, Georgia, this school has been on sale. For beautiful interior photos, please see my friend’s page on Facebook.

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Planar view of rear (south) side of house, facing northwest. - Clanton House, South side of U.S. Highway 84, 0.2 mile east of Post Office Drive, Stockton, Lanier County, GA

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Lanier lawmen make drug arrests

LAKELAND — Authorities in Lanier County made several arrests on drug charges in recent weeks, according to the sheriff’s office.

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Acris gryllus gryllus, the Coastal plain cricket frog Banks Lake National Wildlife Refuge in Lanier county, Georgia 10 March 2013, Nikon D90

When we lived in Valdosta from 2011 through 2013, I often went hiking at Grand Bay Wildlife Management Area just a few miles from our home. Grand Bay featured a vast, sprawling wetland (the “bay”) and a rich, lush Longleaf pine forest. I spent many, many hours out there hunting for snakes and frogs to photograph (along with pretty much anything else I could find).

Now, you might think that the best place to find and photographs frogs at Grand Bay would be the sprawling wetland, but for me it was actually the Longleaf pine forest. Rather often, water would pool up in narrow, shallow channels along the side of the dirt roads, and you could often find frogs in these pools by the dozen — especially in the spring and early summer. One common frog species I worked with and studied was the Coastal plain cricket frog, Acris gryllus gryllus.

Known generally as the Southern cricket frog (Acris gryllus), the Coastal plain cricket frog is one of two gryllus subspecies ranging in the American southeast — the other being the Florida cricket frog, Acris gryllus dorsalis. Generally, the Florida subspecies is considered to range in the Floridian peninsula, though the two subspecies can be rather difficult to differentiate and I suspect gene flow between the two subspecies is likely broad and expansive. Still, any Southern cricket frog I found in Georgia I considered to be the Coastal plains subspecies.

To complicate things a bit, another cricket frog species may potentially range to southern Georgia from time to time: The Northern cricket frog, Acris crepitans. I had great difficulty when it came to differentiating between crepitans and gryllus. My general assumption of cricket frogs at Grand Bay was always gryllus because of region and location (most range maps have crepitans petering out a bit north of the Valdosta area), but there were a few individuals I found that seemed to be more crepitans — and some frog-expert folks online would occasionally point me more to the Northern subspecies direction when I’d share photos of certain individuals. A few key differences between the two include (and I’m yanking this from our repository of reality, Wikipedia):

gryllus has a sharper, pointier snout than crepitans.

gryllus usually has longer hind legs, more than half the length of the body when in the strongly-folded posture (unlike crepitans).

gryllus jumps longer and farther than crepitans

gryllus usually has a sharp, solid black stripe along the back of the thigh; crepitans‘ stripe is jagged and broken.

gryllus has more webbing on the feet than crepitans.

Of course, the problem with those differentiations is the relative-issue — it’s easier to differentiate between the two species if you have a known specimen of each species sitting in front of you. It might also be easier to differentiate between the two if I had extensive experience with Northern cricket frogs from an area that didn’t also have the Southerns…

Ultimately, I ended up filing a few individuals here and there as Northern cricket frogs because of the opinions of some frog folks online, but otherwise I considered Grand Bay’s cricket frog populations to primarily be of the Southern, Coastal plains lineage.

Regardless of taxonomical doubt (which was common with many species at Grand Bay), these were some seriously cute-ass frogs. They’d take to the sides of the dirt road/path in great numbers after good, solid rains. This is a common behavior for cricket frogs during the breeding season. It made for some delightful photographic opportunities, and some of the cricket frogs sported extraordinarily brilliant colors, patterns, and designs. Rarely do I see such brilliant greens in the Florida cricket frog populations of central Florida!

The Coastal Plain Cricket Frog (Acris gryllus gryllus), 10 March 2013 Acris gryllus gryllus, the Coastal plain cricket frog Banks Lake National Wildlife Refuge in Lanier county, 

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