Yet another coqui frog thread

[Devany]

I would pay for a service and so would many people I know. We do not have a lot of them as the jungle/rain/forest is across the highway and south of us, but we are concerned with them going unchecked and would like to keep them away from the house. Our neighborhood sprays with citric acid and lime (alternating)using one of the big county sprayers once a month and that costs money, and seems to be fairly ineffective. I have a good friend that lives in Honokaa and they have been able to keep their neighborhood (heavily forested)coqui free. She pays two young men $20-30 & dinner every week to come out and hand catch any that they can hear. Of course those guys do not want to drive all the way down to Honolii. These "hunters" are paid by the coqui. When I try to catch them I can never find them.

The actual noise they make does not bother me, we can hardly hear them because our bedroom is upstairs, the sound of the surf is so loud and there are not many on our lot. However, my guest room is next to my anthurium garden downstairs and the noise is much louder there.

This would be a great job for teenagers or college kids that just want some cash!

Paul, just curious, how would the coquis help the brown tree snake spread or visa versa? I do not want either of them here of course.

Aloha au i Hawai`i,
devany

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