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They prefer trees around here, to get their call to travel further. Luckily they don't usually go too high.
That's very true about the leaf litter. If the council really wanted to do something about slowing the coqui spread they would go around removing the piles of dumped vegetation on empty lots. It's easy to do and can be done during the day. I used to pile it up too, and I've have never see as many coquis as when I cleared out the pile. That's a good tip for areas that aren't infested yet.
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my husband is building some sort of weapons of mass destruction machine to kill them all. i will let you know if we are successful. i am used to the frogs already but he sleeps with ear plugs.
mary, if you are not joking, please keep us informed of his project.
I've been having success with the cup of hot scalding water. Sent 4 of 'em to coqui hell tonite. Your aim must be true because you get only one shot (until the next time). Dousing him with the hot water works well when he's in a place that would be hard to get to with your hand. On the bad side, the heat does damage to plant leaves.
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Put an extra egg in your batter, otherwise it doesn't stay on very well.
Puna: Our roosters crow first
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After we got a cat the frogs are far away from the house.
no more rats mice or roaches either.
One Thing I can always be sure of is that things will never go as expected.
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If you have an iPhone you can buy the Coqui Frog Mimic app:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/coqui-mim...00615?mt=8
Using the app you can call the frogs in similar to how one might call in Elk or Turkeys by using mating calls.
Pretty sure the guy that wrote the app lives out Puna way, you could support a local developer. [
] Happy hunting.
I've found that for small one on one spraying, that household ammonia works and it does kill frogs on contact. It is cheap too, Parson's ammonia. I just have it in a Windex sprayer. So far no damage to plants from spot spraying frogs. If I doused the plant I would hose it off.
Spent a couple years with a big sprayer and citric acid, but had to concede defeat when I moved near a gulch. I have a couple plantings near the house where it's not practical to find frogs at night. I'm down to banishing frogs from the actual decks.
My cats are into rodents and lizards. Their interest in frogs is minimal, bringing them in the house as play toys is not too helpful. Sure they will chase a hopping frog, but the coquis rarely hop around.
Best of luck with the fight, but I am not optimistic.
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Some good Coqui info on this site:
http://www.hawaiiancoqui.org/aboutthecoqui.htm
Site says Coqui don't like grass -> grow more grass around your house. Site also says we should be careful to not create a bigger problem (use of poisons, chemicals, environmental contamination) to fight the Coqui. Seems like sound advice. As a disclaimer, I am not an advocate of this website or the statements contained on this website.
To be honest, I like the Coqui frogs. As a kid I grew up around crickets and cadidids - I guess I'm used to such sounds.
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It is important to understand who the author of that website is and what his track record is. He loves to hear himself talk and to make waves. Among other things he once wrote a book about how wearing bras causes breast cancer. Now keep in mind that none of the mainstream medical establishment thinks so. He is an inexhaustible fount of knowledge as long as you are not hung up on whether any of it is true.
Examination of the stomach contents of coqui frogs shows that they eat very few mosquitoes. They eat lots of insects found in the leaf litter on the forest floor. Their scientific name is Eleutherodactylus Coqui, which is greek for free-toed. They have no webs between their toes.
It is hard to tell whether Singer cares about anything except his own aggrandizement but even if he meant well, he is still not doing good by creating false facts to support his points of view regarding the various invasive species he perversely champions.
