SweetWorm

"Don't eat too many worms or you'll ruin your dinner" -Mom
Actually legless salamanders, these creatures lay thier eggs in the holes left behind by a slow-growing creeping vine. These egg caches are sought as a delicacy because of the sticky honey that nourishes the hatchlings as they hatch a season before the rains and mature to adolescence behind a semi-transparant door that sloughs off when moist.
They eat the larvae of various flying insect as well as actual worms, slugs and other small insects.
As adults, they adopt a mottled appearance to camoflauge themselves against rocks. When out of water, they feed like ambush predators and wait to stick with thier long tongues anything that flies or scurries past them.

Basic Information

Genetics and Reproduction

Holes in the rocks are found and used as homes and to lay thier eggs, which are capped off with a thick leathery translucent door made from salivary secretions.

Dietary Needs and Habits

Eating a diet mostly consisting of insects, thier larvae, small amphibians and reptiles and fish. Like most larger lifeforms on the planet, the enter a period of torpor or near-hibernation during certain seasons, hiding in narrow holes with thier mate or alone.

Biological Cycle

After eggs hatch and either wait their way or lick their way out of their protective egg clutch, they drop into nearby water pools or streams and survive on eating larvaes and tiny floating plants as well as worms and fish eggs.
Juveniles develop quickly and utilize their sticky skin to worm up out of the water onto nearby rocks to ambush prey such as flies and small frogs with thier excellent camoflage.
Adults wander great distances and after finding a mate, lay eggs in a protective area near seasonal water bodies, usually a narrow hole in the rock.

Additional Information

Perception and Sensory Capabilities

They posses a keen sense of vibration and subtle changes in light that could indicate the shadow of a predator. Able to smell water for a great distance, they are able to wander a great distance from safety in search of food and mates.