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Too cold is the reason ... mt view area has many nights with none or a scattered few in distance when it reaches lower 60s... Sunday morning was 54 at 1200'
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save our indigenous and endemic Hawaiian Plants... learn about them, grow them, and plant them on your property, ....instead of all that invasive non-native garbage I see in most yards... aloha
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save our indigenous and endemic Hawaiian Plants... learn about them, grow them, and plant them on your property, ....instead of all that invasive non-native garbage I see in most yards... aloha
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Originally posted by bananahead
Too cold is the reason ... mt view area has many nights with none or a scattered few in distance when it reaches lower 60s... Sunday morning was 54 at 1200'
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save our indigenous and endemic Hawaiian Plants... learn about them, grow them, and plant them on your property, ....instead of all that invasive non-native garbage I see in most yards... aloha
Got fire ants? It seems like the invasives that take hold at lower elevations don't do so well at higher elevations.
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Shockwave,
I remember seeing reports about coquis getting larger. My personal experience is yes, the coquis I find on my property (including the damn lanai for goodness sake) are larger than when they first arrived. However, there may be a very reasonable explanation for this other than some sort of mutation.
http://hilo.hawaiitribune-herald.com/sec...eling.html
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"It's not true that the frogs are getting larger. What's going on is that the populations of the frogs are maturing, so there are more and more frogs that are living longer. They don't stop growing until 6 or 7 years old, so there are more large, adult frogs showing up with more frequency," he said."
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I forgot all about that article, it makes sense to me that a property with mature coquis would have fewer of them, any given environmental niche can only support a certain size biomass, and the coquis occupy a very specific niche in the food web.
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PS. Love the name 'shockwave rider'. As a physics undergraduate shock waves were a particular favourite of mine!
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Maybe the big ones eat the little ones?
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Maybe the big ones eat the little ones?
Or the big ones out eat the little ones.
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quote:
Originally posted by J Abrams
Maybe the big ones eat the little ones?
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That, plus all of the catching and releasing. Makes sense.
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63 degree's is their limit before they quiet .
Also too dry for them,so being frozen in froggy terms and to dry for frogy copulation helps us humans sleep peacefully . And they are a roosters best source of squirming protein,plus the hens also love them on the hoof .But most of the coqui are sitting back,smoking a fat spliff drinking a micro home brew,next to the wood heat stove,taking a break from puna .It is OSHA rules and regs that they get 2 weeks off per year above the 1100 foot elevation in Puna.
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Sounds like the Cuban Coqui, or Porto Rican, whatever, it's in SW Florida too.. Except it only sounds off for a few weeks in wet areas,, mainly heard off inside of gully ways, in the heat of summer. Has/is creating it's own breed in Hawaii now, an ecological evolution in high gear..
Maybe they get the black snake cause, that's who seems to be eating em Florida.
