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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.
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Aloha adias, Lava Tree State Park on a warm wet evening will give you the worst case scenario, in my opinion. Be sure to close your eyes and think about trying to sleep through it. You're also invited over to our house anytime - don't forget your sprayer. Side by side house lots in highly developed communities do not provide the same habitat as undeveloped and densely foliated areas (I happen to be surrounded by the later).
A correction to my earlier post on this subject - the brown tree snake has wiped out species on Guam, not Puerto Rico; and it was birds, not frogs. Do two wrongs make a right yet? I know three lefts do.
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Lava Tree Park at night is straight out of the twilight zone. The screeching is unearthly. I saw a B & B for sale there. Before the coquis, Lava Tree Park was probably a tranquil and wonderful place to spend the night. No more. Any eradication efforts should be tried there. If you can kill them there, you can kill them anywhere.
Hawaii needs to get its act together on this. I would like to see at least one neighborhood coqui free, through a concerted effort of the neighbors. Of all the negatives about Puna, this is the one that spooked me the most.
All in all, Puna is a positive. But the coquis are not the happy part of Puna. How they are taken care of must be deliberated very carefully. But something must be done. With the Super-Ferry, they will be everywhere in no time. Once they hit Kauai, we might get some action.
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why all the bruhaha about these little creatures of nature? I am lost why people make such a big deal about their 'evening singing'? I'm sure a great number of you who aren't local had far greater noise pollutions from your previous homes you had outside of Hawaii than what these little creatures can make. How about the constant sound of sirens in the old neighborhood? When was the last time a siren woke you up in Puna?
I guess I'm weird? But I love the sound of 'Mother Nature's' little critters. Why all the fuss?
Worst case scenerio with Coquis...is nothing compared to being smack down in the middle of a place like NY City!
Life is tooooo short to get all "sucked up" about a sound coming from a little critter that you can vitually do nothing about. Hey, I forgot, we are humans!!!!! We are smarter, we got thumbs to boot! So I wonder why these smarter creatures called human beings don't go out and buy ear plugs? Or go to sleep with the sound of Kenny G playing. I mean aren't we intelligent enough to get the upper hand on these critters?
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