Milk Snake

A exciting find. Milk snakes are very shy animals, and difficult to find. DePaul University Bryan Suson, of the Wildlife Discovery Center, and Caleb Gordon, of Lake Forest College, uncovered this fellow at about 1:30 a.m.

173

At 9 p.m., the species count is 173: 50 invertebrates, 44 vertebrates (including this guy), 22 vascular plants and 57 non-vascular plants. Most field teams were still collecting data, so the numbers should go up much further once they're in and entered in the database. Stay tuned.