Frogs and bugs

[Radiopeg]

I'm asking this here, because there really is no general living in Puna Forum. I spent 10 days in Fern Acres this July in a house that had coqui frogs. A great deafening chorus of frogs. However I also noticed almost no insectoid life. Other than a few nights that small things got attracted to the light, I saw nothing. So do the coquis keep the bug population down? [?][?][?]

[mdd7000]

From what I have read, the main diet is ants.
I see more bugs eaten by geckos than anything else.

[MarkP]

You would think that they eat mosquitos but studies show the don't. They eat bugs that live in the leaf litter on the ground. The state coqui-frog site talks about putting a pheremone attractant for fruit flies near the PVC T traps for the frogs so I guess they would be attracted to and eat fruit flies but unfortunately they don't make much of a dent in the mosquito population. Maybe it is a prey density thing. Fruit flies swarming a pheremone attractant may be low and slow enough to be worth going after.