04-12-2006, 01:00 PM
The County has nice sprayers you can borrow, we just got a bigger 400 gallon one on a trailer. There is also a program to reimburse folks for the hydrated lime they purchase to spray frogs with as well. Up the coast here, we have community frog groups who gather to clear out areas. Each area has a Head Frog Hunter (that's may name for them, they probably have a more official name) who folks will report frog sightings to. It is structured somewhat like Neighborhood Watch, I think.
Here up the coast, we get sporatic infestations which get cleared up until another frog manages to get here. It is much easier to get rid of the first few frogs than to clear them out of a heavily infested area. Soon as you hear one (if you live in a frog free area) kill it immediately! Don't just listen to one frog chirp and think it sounds cute and you can learn to live with it - he will always bring his friends and then it is horrendous. By the time they reach that concentration it is much more difficult to get rid of them. Get rid of any frogs you can hear, even if it isn't specifically your yard. We take out frogs along the side of the road, in construction areas, where ever we find them.
Get super soakers for the kids and load them up with hydrated lime. The high school kids taking a census of frogs in Kalopa park used the super soakers to good advantage since they needed the frog bodies for thier census count. The County sprayers work well for larger areas but you still have to spray the frog, not the area. Just spraying the area when the frogs aren't there won't kill them, although you'd think it would.
Getting rid of coquis can be done, but it is going to take all the communities working together to do it. Also, if you find out anyone is spreading the frogs on purpose, turn them in to the police as well as the neighborhood aunties since it is very illegal as well as anti-social.
Just my two cents.
A hui hou,
Cathy
Here up the coast, we get sporatic infestations which get cleared up until another frog manages to get here. It is much easier to get rid of the first few frogs than to clear them out of a heavily infested area. Soon as you hear one (if you live in a frog free area) kill it immediately! Don't just listen to one frog chirp and think it sounds cute and you can learn to live with it - he will always bring his friends and then it is horrendous. By the time they reach that concentration it is much more difficult to get rid of them. Get rid of any frogs you can hear, even if it isn't specifically your yard. We take out frogs along the side of the road, in construction areas, where ever we find them.
Get super soakers for the kids and load them up with hydrated lime. The high school kids taking a census of frogs in Kalopa park used the super soakers to good advantage since they needed the frog bodies for thier census count. The County sprayers work well for larger areas but you still have to spray the frog, not the area. Just spraying the area when the frogs aren't there won't kill them, although you'd think it would.
Getting rid of coquis can be done, but it is going to take all the communities working together to do it. Also, if you find out anyone is spreading the frogs on purpose, turn them in to the police as well as the neighborhood aunties since it is very illegal as well as anti-social.
Just my two cents.
A hui hou,
Cathy
Kurt Wilson