Creeping eruption is a skin infection caused by hookworms. The infection is also called cutaneous larva migrans or sandworm disease. Creeping eruption causes severe itching, blisters, and a red ...

Like other species of mole salamanders (genus Ambystoma), spotted salamanders spend most of the year underground ... The small eggs (about one-eighth of an inch in diameter) hatch in 30 to 40 days and ...

and it can be difficult to distinguish larvae of small-mouthed salamanders from larvae of other species of Ambystoma. (This profile was created by Dr. Laurie Vitt as part of a partnership between the ...