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Happy #WildlifeWednesday! Today we are looking at the squirrel treefrog (Hyla squirella). This little cutie gave our D03-FL field technician quite a surprise during LAI (leaf area index) when she tried to unravel the flag to read it. These tree frogs are always hiding in our flagging. They prefer areas with moisture that provide shelter and food, such as swamps, marshes, edges of lakes and streams, trees, gardens, shrubs, and houses. Squirrel treefrogs can be found all throughout the Southeast and are very common to see at D03’s sites.
The camouflage of the Arizona Canyon Treefrog is amazing how it's body matches the surrounding rock textures and colors!
Hyla arenicolor (canyon treefrog). Found this frog in a rockpile next to a culvert on I-17 just north of Munds Park area.
Thanks to Steve Hale for the ID help! From Steve's email:
It is the common tree frog of Arizona and are usually found in nooks and cracks above the water along streams up to about 7,000 feet. They are real variable in color; grays, browns and salt and pepper, rarely with a splash of green, leading to an easy way to remember their name "Hyla are-any-color."
A recently metamorphosed froglet, the result of tree frogs breeding in experimental cattle tank mesocosms. Pine Grove Mills, PA
Gray treefrogs breed in May when they move to breeding ponds. Clusters of up to 30 eggs are attached to vegetation near the surface of the water. The eggs hatch in three to six days. Tadpoles transform within two months. Adults reach maturity within two years
Gray Tree-frogs, Wood Frogs & Spring Peepers can freeze solid in the winter. Their ability to withstand the cold gives them a jump (sorry) on the breeding season. They prefer ponds and lakes surrounded by low-laying vegetation. They lay their eggs singly, attatching them to plants under the water.
Gray tree frog, Saratoga Battlefield National Monument, New York, summer 2006. This guy apparently thought he was well camouflaged. This was the first time I had seen one in it's emerald coloration. It is sitting on a common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca).
These hybrids are typically a one-way creation: calling male Green Treefrogs perched at wetland edges intercept female Barking Treefrogs as they try to get to wetland centers, where the males of their species generally are.
There were dozens of Hyla regilla on the broadleaf arrowhead plants around the lake in the Wapato Access Greenway on Sauvie Island in Portland. Lewis and Clark, upon landing here in 1805, called this Wapato Island for all the arrowhead plants growing here.
Gray treefrogs breed in May when they move to breeding ponds. Clusters of up to 30 eggs are attached to vegetation near the surface of the water. The eggs hatch in three to six days. Tadpoles transform within two months. Adults reach maturity within two years
Hyla arenicolor (canyon treefrog). Found this frog in a rockpile next to a culvert on I-17 just north of Munds Park area. He's much smaller than he looks in this photo (about 2" or so).
Thanks to Steve Hale for the ID help! From Steve's email:
It is the common tree frog of Arizona and are usually found in nooks and cracks above the water along streams up to about 7,000 feet. They are real variable in color; grays, browns and salt and pepper, rarely with a splash of green, leading to an easy way to remember their name "Hyla are-any-color."