10-04-2007, 03:46 PM
Thanks to all of you for the great ideas and proposals.
@AkoniV et al:
I think the coqui control thing is a site specific one: terrain, size, neighbors and your determination to battle them for the rest of your life
For instance, if your land is flat-ish and has a clear borderline, then I think I would put up a quality fabric/plastic (Rudy's Shade)fence around the whole works, or at least on the jungle sides. These fences have been tried and work well unless you have wind exposue, wild pigs or packs of kids and dogs racing around there. They can be very short, 2 1/2-feet tall with an inverted curled top edge. I will see if I can find the link to this…. Here is one: http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/coqui/PhysicalBarriers.asp
From the beginning I thought genetics or biological means was the way to go… tweak something in the male or female coqui that gets passed to the little froglets that makes them infertile. It’s done in insects and even fish, so why not frogs? (For one opposed to genetically modified seeds and plants I am surprised to see myself write that!)
Anyway, there is a large international meeting on just the coqui coming up next May in Kona. Genetics is one of the four topics on the agenda. Cost $ to go. I can’t find a link to that but it was announced on the local news this last week.
Aloha & good luck
@AkoniV et al:
I think the coqui control thing is a site specific one: terrain, size, neighbors and your determination to battle them for the rest of your life
For instance, if your land is flat-ish and has a clear borderline, then I think I would put up a quality fabric/plastic (Rudy's Shade)fence around the whole works, or at least on the jungle sides. These fences have been tried and work well unless you have wind exposue, wild pigs or packs of kids and dogs racing around there. They can be very short, 2 1/2-feet tall with an inverted curled top edge. I will see if I can find the link to this…. Here is one: http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/coqui/PhysicalBarriers.asp
From the beginning I thought genetics or biological means was the way to go… tweak something in the male or female coqui that gets passed to the little froglets that makes them infertile. It’s done in insects and even fish, so why not frogs? (For one opposed to genetically modified seeds and plants I am surprised to see myself write that!)
Anyway, there is a large international meeting on just the coqui coming up next May in Kona. Genetics is one of the four topics on the agenda. Cost $ to go. I can’t find a link to that but it was announced on the local news this last week.
Aloha & good luck