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Hyla versicolor * Knott Co, Ky
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Hyla
Size - about 2" long
The Gray Treefrog can be green, gray, or brown in color. It can be a solid color, or it can have blotches on its back. The gray treefrog can change its color in seconds. It tends to become darker when it is cold or dark. Its coloring helps it blend in with tree bark! It has a white underside and lots of warts. It has large, sticky toe pads that help it cling to tree bark and other surfaces. It has bright yellow to orange skin under its thighs.
The gray treefrog is nocturnal. It spends the day resting in trees and shrubs. At night, it crawls among the branches and leaves looking for food. It usually only comes out of the trees and bushes during the breeding season. In the winter, it hibernates under leaves, bark, or rocks on the forest floor.
Breeding season runs from April to August. Males gather in trees and bushes next to breeding ponds and swamps and begin calling. The male aggressively defends its territory from intruders. The female selects a mate based on his call. She lays her eggs on the surface of shallow water in ponds or swamps. She may also lay her eggs in standing water in tire ruts, vernal pools, or even swimming pools! The eggs are attached to vegetation to keep them from floating away. The female lays as many as 2,000 eggs in groups of 10-40 eggs. The tadpoles hatch in 4-5 days and change into froglets in about two months.
Info taken from: www.nhptv.org/wild/graytreefrog.asp
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A little beebie Gray tree frog (Hyla versicolor) I think anyway....never too sure about these little guys
More likely a frog, Gray Treefrog, but the title is funnier to a Brit. www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/toad_in_the_hole_with_86283
Occupant of a bird box in New Hampshire
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The gray treefrog is a medium sized frog that has the ability to change colour to blend into its habitat.
The gray treefrog gets its name because it is usually gray in colour, and lives in trees.
Gray treefrogs live in forests and they usually stay close to small ponds or wetlands. They live in eastern North America, from southern Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. Treefrogs are found in southeastern Manitoba, as far north as the middle of Lake Winnipeg.
In the day time, treefrogs rest on the branches or leaves of trees. They are active at night and will crawl through the trees looking for food. They usually hunt by sitting still and waiting for an insect to fly or crawl close by. In late autumn they leave the trees and crawl under the leaves on the forest floor. They sleep there for the winter and their bodies can even freeze solid!
This tree frog was calling loudly from the trunk of a tree right next to a road--there was a puddle in the gutter, perhaps it was trying to entice a female there. The throat pouch is partly extended--it did call once while I took photos, but I missed it!
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A male gray treefrog from Pinewoods Camp in Plymouth, MA. Identifying marks include the white spot below each eye and the bright orange inner thighs. As you can probably tell from the inflated throat sac, they are noisy little buggers, sounding like piercing arboreal cell phones; sometimes they competed with the band!
This cute and pleasantly plump treefrog [the Grey Treefrog (Hyla versicolor)] spent an entire summer's day lounging (if not outright snoozing) on the mount for my mother's satellite TV dish. This frog is likely a female, based on its relatively light-coloured throat.
It was entirely unconcerned even when my younger brother had to disconnect the cables from the dish so that we could run them through a conduit underneath the new porch we are building for her.
These little beauties can change their colouring based on their surroundings. When sitting on an unnatural object like this metal post, they are predominantly neutral in colour.
Gray tree frog on the porch railing. He wasn't nearly as green as the light in this photo makes him look.
Gray Treefrog, either Hyla chrysoscelis Cope, 1880, or Hyla versicolor LeConte, 1825. These sibling species co-occur and can only be distinguished by call or genetic analysis. Usually cryptic, this individual was discovered clinging to the side of an automobile. Near Brentsville, Virginia, USA. Photo by David L. Govoni ©2007. All rights reserved.
This Gray Tree frog (Hyla versicolor) would make a great window washer. He had a great hunting spot for moths on a well-lit window.
I was very excited this past Saturday 10 Aug. 2019 to find about a dozen tiny Gray tree frogs on plants and trees close to a frog pond I often visit for dragonfly and frog photos.
I first noticed these amazing little frogs at this location in 2014. I saw them again in late summer 2015, but then poof gone for 2016, 17 and 18. I feared that they had totaly died out. Then Saturday after looking around the trees and plants near the pond I found none and was on my way back to my car when I spotted the first one on a low leaffy plant on the tree line, then I saw another and another all hiding in plain sight.
They have the ability to slowly change their color to the color of whatever they are sitting on which is a very effective camouflage.
July 13, 2022
A young grey tree frog in its green phase. This guy is only a couple cm long.
(Hyla versicolor)
Brewster, Massachusetts
Cape Cod - USA
Photo by brucetopher
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