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(8/31/15) our dusk to dawn light attracts insects which in turn attracts these guys to the house siding at night
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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Photographed on my property in central Oklahoma, on 22 May 2019.
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Of the three gray Treefrogs in the pool, one was dark brown, one was the usual gray, and the third, seen here on Izzy's back, was almost pure white. Apparently they can change color somewhat, because later in the day this same frog was back to the regular gray.
I went exploring in the woods looking for mushrooms and came across this little guy, he wasn't a mushroom! lol
He didn't mind the attention either.
He had pretty yellow on his underside, but you can't see it in the picture.
After looking it up, I found he is a gray tree frog either the Hyla chrysoscelis or the Hyla versicolor.
He posed nicely for me!
This Gray Tree Frog has chosen a strange place to spend the day, out in the sun on a boardwalk at the Museum. Notice that its markings are muted; these frogs can change their color and pattern to some extent.
Photographed at the Lexington Wildlife Management Area, Oklahoma, on 22 July 2018.
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Dewy gray tree frog waiting patiently on a milkweed leaf at North Meridian Road Park in Okemos, Michigan.
This cute little immature Gray Treefrog, Hyla versicolor, was hiding on a leaf at Dave Small's place in Athol, Massachusetts.
There are two varieties of Gray Treefrogs: Hyla versicolor and Hyla chrysoscelis. The only way to tell the difference (without a comparison of the cells of the inner eyelid(!)) is by listening to their calls. I think we have H. chrysoscelis based on the buzzing as opposed to trilling of their many calls in the night.
How can a treefrog be cute? Perhaps it only seems so to a naturalist. The gray treefrog is only an inch or a bit more as an adult. This one was only 3/8-inch - - - obviously a new hatchling of the year. It could have sat on my thumbnail with room to spare. I'm not sure how I even saw it sitting motionless on the leaf of a spicebush. It was very fat. Catching insects on the spicebush must be easy.
He must have heard us talking about him!
I hid one of the prank frogs out on the front porch and the very next morning, look who's there! It's TOAD!
Perfect timing!
Hyla versicolor
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July 27, 2018
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This is a young grey tree frog (hyla versicolor). These frogs can be all green, all grey or a mixture of both. The little ones I've seen are mostly green. The one adult we found was ALL grey. It looked like a rock.
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