10-23-2009, 06:42 PM
We live in the lowlands in Puna. We tried, in a neighborhood effort about 4-5 years ago to get a few small areas with the county sprayers. Time after time. Gave up. Goqui are imported on vehicles, so there kept being more and more places where we heard coqui infestations. The first areas that we had sprayed kept increasing in size. The number of areas multiplied over the years. In the end, it is impossible. I will not poison the ground or the other beings that inhabit it any more. Because it is impossible. I loved the relative silence that used to be around the house at night, but I#699;ve just gotten used to the coqui sounds, because in my mind, there is no alternative and I am not going to drive myself crazy by not accepting it for the moment. I just hope they cannot live up the mountain where there are native birds that they would be competing for the same insects that native birds depend on. The whole idea that they can live way up in Volcano is kind of disturbing. And they live through the winter? Have there been any surveys or studies done by scientists in the park re this?