01-14-2007, 05:30 AM
I've heard we already have the chyrid fungus among our frog population. There was some sort of university paper written on it awhile back. Rather dry reading, but they had mentioned the fungus already being present in a small percentage of the coqui population.
Eventually there will probably be some sort of control on the frog population. Wether it is this fungus, some disease or some sort of predator such as brown tree snakes is still unknown. It has been suspected that some tree snakes have actually made it to Hawaii, but starved to death before multiplying. With all these coqui out there now, the next tree snake which makes it here should find an ample food supply.
Any time ANYTHING is grown in massive quantities then something that thrives on them will appear.
Eventually there will probably be some sort of control on the frog population. Wether it is this fungus, some disease or some sort of predator such as brown tree snakes is still unknown. It has been suspected that some tree snakes have actually made it to Hawaii, but starved to death before multiplying. With all these coqui out there now, the next tree snake which makes it here should find an ample food supply.
Any time ANYTHING is grown in massive quantities then something that thrives on them will appear.
Kurt Wilson