Coqui

[mella l]

Geez the little hitch hikers! What nerve! I have also read where they travel from place to place in the tracks of heavy equipment. Oh well double pained windows to start. Chickens to finish. Wish us luck!

mella l

[leilaniguy]

Honolulu's Midweek magazine editor was in Hilo in mid November, stayed on Banyan Drive and has dire warnings for Oahu: Be afraid Honolulu, be very, very afraid! www.midweek.com type in coqui in search



Edited by - leilaniguy on 12/24/2005 14:04:41

Edited by - leilaniguy on 12/24/2005 14:07:01

[Brad W]

I've had good success using a four gallon backpack sprayer and a heavy mix of hydrated lime. I can't cover the whole Island but my lanai and property line plantings are coqui free for many weeks. This might just be a routine maintenance kind of thing - sorta like mowing the lawn. I'd build a high volumn spray rig and take this on for golf money if there was enough demand.

[punafish]

A coqui tried "hitch-hiking" in the tracks of one of my vehicles but there wasn't quite enough tread for the little guy (gal?)to avoid being imprinted where the rubber met to road. Coqui pancakes, anyone? As of my last visit, the coquis could be heard off in the distance but so far...yeah, I know, it's just a matter of time...

I'm waiting for someone to start a "Coqui Busters" business. You figure out how to get people some sleep and you'll get a lot more than golf money!

Tim

[HADave]

Anyone ever try using them little darlings for bait.

Read the midweek article for a real good laugh

Good one Hutch

[John S. Rabi]

Am I the only one who sleeps well with the coqui serenade on? They don't bother me at all.

John S. Rabi, ABR,CM,CRB,FHS,PB,RB
Typically Tropical Properties
75-5870 Walua Road, Suite 101
Kailua-Kona, HI 96740
(808)327-3185

[HADave]

Hey John, glad to here you say that The wife and I are kind of anxious to hear them as we are from Maine and aftah a long wintah we kind of look forward to hearing our country peepers as they are called here. They are as well very vocal during the summer months and we couldn't sleep without them. Of course they don't come in as close as the window screens but as close as the dense forest come to the house which can be 50 to 100 feet. Anyway we are curious to say the least to see how those frogs here compare.

Aloha, Dave

[leilaniguy]

Aloha HADave, These little buggars are slightly different than mainland frogs. If you want to experience the sound level, tonight before you go to bed, drag out your vacuum cleaner, put it next to your bed, turn it on. Try to sleep.....not kidding. If anyone out there saw an episode of Animal Planet about 2 years ago titled "Hawaii's most unwanted" It shows people hunting frogs at night with bleach and flashlights- that was me and my niece Val. I've never seen it myself.

[mella l]

Just went thru the thread to see if this site was posted. Have seen and heard this before but thought others might like to experience the little fellow.

http://www.hear.org/AlienSpeciesInHawaii...#frogcalls

Sorry you'll need to copy and paste. Why this didn't do an automatic link I don't know.

Not sure how high to turn the volume up to replicate the island experience. Think it depends where you are located. Have read somewhere that some have trouble hearing their television sets over the little frogezzz.





mella l

[leilaniguy]

Aloha mella, pretty much full volume, and always the chorus. I just tried it on my PC and they started singing back to me from the jungle. Also if you whistle the first verse of the old pop tune by Tina Turner: I can't stand the rain- that gets them going too, day or night.