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a scanned Australian postcard with the country's most charismatic and charming green treefrog (Litoria caerulea)
Did you know that gray treefrogs are only active at night? During the day, you might spot them hiding out and blending in. This one was hanging out on a porch with a spring peeper nearby.
Video by Megan Seymour/USFWS.
© Jim Gilbert 2009 all rights reserved
While photographing a different tree frog on a tree I heard something hit the ground nearby. I don't know why, but I had the idea that it might be another tree frog, so I searched around and found it. While I was trying to get a photo the frog jumped up on my flash. This guy stuck around for quite a while.
G9 pocketcam, BTW.
Scherman-Hoffman Audubon, Bernardsville, NJ
Same Frog, Different Log as www.flickr.com/photos/bprobin/8393561218/in/photostream
I've been trying out different ways of making a background that's neither too boring nor too distracting and also somewhat complimentary to the froggy. This is the same background material as the previous photo, but not as wrinkly means less tonal variation in it.
Lighting Info:
-Sunpak 433d camera right and a little front, in homemade strip box.
-Sunpak 433d camera left fired through 60cm round diffusion panel
-Bare sb-28 at background, a yellow curtain pressed into service.
-Triggered with rf-602s.
I found these squirrel treefrogs (Hyla squirella) in a pvc pipe in the wetland area near Friday Hall on February 20, 2018. Placing pvc pipes and other similar objects is actually a method used to monitor hylid frog populations and their distributions. When the pipes are placed correctly, they provide a suitable environment for the frogs to take refuge during the day when they are generally inactive. Many species of treefrogs benefit from artificial hiding places like these, even when they aren't there for this purpose. This relationship between treefrogs and humans could be considered commensalism since it does not directly help or hurt people but it does benefit the frogs. However, I would also say it is a form of mutualism since treefrogs provide the ecological service of pest management. Treefrogs and frogs in general consume enormous amounts of insects during the warmer months, including mosquitoes. This benefits humans by reducing the risk of contracting an insect-transmitted disease.
Source: www.jstor.org/stable/3877983?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
Hyla chrysoscelis ... and a third one has shown up (or I missed him earlier). Not 100% sure, but think they are Copes Gray Treefrog; anyone who knows to confirm or dispute, please do! Thanks
Hyla andersonii from South Carolina. One of two individuals heard calling from the edge of a small pond in a recent clearcut.
Squirrel treefrog (Hyla squirella) in a trumpet pitcher plant leaf
Size: Usually 1 to 1.5 in.
Identification: Body is tan, green, gray, or brown, and may be marked with splotches; skin is smooth. Upper lip is often yellowish on bright green individuals. Sides may be marked with broken, whitish stripes. Like other treefrogs, this species has enlarged, sticky toepads. Squirrel Treefrogs are often distinguished from other similar species by process of elimination.
Breeding:March to August; lays eggs singly or in pairs on the substrate or attached to vegetation. Call is raspy and somewhat duck-like. To hear frog calls, visit the USGS Frog Call Lookup and select the species you want to hear from the common name drop-down list.
Diet: Ants, beetles, crickets, spiders, termites, and other small invertebrates.
Habitats: Found throughout Florida and in the Keys on buildings and in shrubs and trees in urbanized and natural areas, including hardwood hammocks, bottomland and floodplain forests and swamps, pine-oak forests, and pine flatwoods. Overwinters in groups under loose bark and in tree holes. Breeds in shallow, temporary pools of water that lack fish, including marshes, wet flatwoods, and flooded ditches; prefers open wetlands.