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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.
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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.
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
Agalychnis callidryas, is also known as the red-eyed treefrog. The scientific name of the red-eyed treefrog, A. callidryas, comes from Greek words kalos (beautiful) and dryas (a tree or wood nymph)
Nog een boomkikkertje. Ik vind ze erg moeilijk te fotograferen omdat ze vaak tussen de bladeren van braamstruiken zitten. Deze kon ik met mn hoekzoeker vanaf een laag standpunt fotograferen, zittend tussen de (stekelige) takken van de braamstruiken. Hierbij er voor zorgend dat mijn schaduw over de kikker viel. Doordat de zon wel het veldje bescheen op de achtergrond kreeg ik toch een egale achtergrond. Alle schrammen op mijn armen zijn dit dan wel weer waard
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.
Gray Treefrog
Scientific name:
Hyla chrysoscelis and Hyla versicolor
Features:
Gray treefrogs are Missouri’s most common species of treefrog. Two species of gray treefrogs occur in Missouri: Cope’s gray treefrog, Hyla chrysoscelis, and the eastern gray treefrog, Hyla versicolor. There is always a large, white marking below each eye. Large, adhesive toe pads are present on fingers and toes.
Color:
May be gray, greenish-gray or brown. Bright green specimens are
often seen. The inside of each hind leg is washed with yellow-orange.
Size:
Average from 1 ¼ to 2 inches in head-body length.
Habitat:
Forest-dwelling
Breeding:
Late May and early June in fishless, woodland ponds.
Call:
These two species are nearly identical in appearance and are best separated by their calls. Cope’s gray treefrog sounds like a buzzer, while the eastern gray treefrog has a birdlike, musical trill.
Information Taken from:
Hyla versicolor complex (versicolor or chrysoscelis), Sparta, Monroe County Wisconsin, 10 August 2019.
I'm a little confused as to whether this is P.braueri or P.megacephalus. I believe they might be the same frog just being reshuffled between species.
I know frogs are not as popular as bugs, this isn't one of my usual subjects, and this isn't one of my best photos, but this little frog was just too nice to pass up.
I found him/her hopping from leaf to leaf on the side of the trail I was walking on. It was probably less than an inch long (this was taken with the 135mm on a few extension tubes, and cropped quite a bit) and was a beautiful bright green color that the flash destroyed somewhat.
I have never seen a frog like this, usually I just see brownish toads around, I've never seen a tree frog. Is it even a tree frog? Anyone know the species?
Hyla cinerea, North Carolina. I never used to hear or see this species in the piedmont, however I have been hearing them near the house starting this spring.
Morris County, New Jersey
A perpetual favorite of wildlife enthusiasts, these small amphibians exude charisma.. and also a loud bird-like call. It's hard to have a bad day after viewing one up close.
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In a restroom instead of a tree.
With the Sabino Canyon Volunteer Naturalists on February 18 2015. www.sabinonaturalists.org/walkshikesdemos/
It's only February, but Spring is here! (Of course, as always in Arizona subject to changes in the weather.) Lots of flowers are starting to bloom, there are butterflies out, the lizzards are beginning to appear and the creek is running.
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