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I have an empty lot with lots of trees near my house and in the spring and summer I check it out for salamanders. I only find eastern redbacks. Over the past 2 years i have noticed an interesting thing. This is that 2 years ago almost every redback sal i found was in the redback morph (I was pretty excited when I found a leadback). This recent year almost every one was a leadback (i can only remember finding 3 or 4 reds out of the total 20-25 total sals.) i just thought someone might be interested
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. I am very curious about my findings in the upcoming year. I will be happy to share my results.
 
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I have a lot of these in my yard, around my house. I usually see both; I never noticed if there were more some years than others. I'll have to pay more attention. Once I lifted up a brick and saw a whole bunch of eggs. That was pretty cool. I keep bricks in certain cooler places so I can lift them up and get food; they seem to attract bugs. Food for my NEWTS, of course.
 
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yea i have seen eggs before in the same woods (not sure if they were redbacks though, but probably)
 
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Southern Redbacks are almost always in the leadback phase. You have the Northern Redbacks. It all depends upon the genes of the parent salamanders. Redbacked ones can still produce leadbacked ones.
 
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