On November 1, 2019, Ruben Tovar led an undergraduate student from the University of Texas at Austin working on a senior project in biology and an interested Friend of GRSP/HCSNA into a cave in the Honey Creek State Natural Area.  The target of the senior project was to swab the skin of cave and surface salamanders to better understand the diversity of microbe’s (microbiome) living on the skin of these salamanders.  The team entered the cave about 2 o’clock in the afternoon and re-emerged three hours later, wet, muddy, and with five blind salamanders, Eurycea latitans.