Coquifornia

[PaulW]

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/obs...is-coming/

It will be interesting to see if they can stop it. Maybe it's only because they've had so much rain lately.

I never realized the link between frogs and rat lungworm before.
Do rats eat frogs?

[DTisme]

Uh oh. Thanks for sharing. good article.

[Kenney]

It was news to me too that rats eat coqui. I'm glad that something eats them but it really sucks that they're fattening the rats!
Now one pest is feeding the other. Ah, the circle of life...

[kalakoa]

It will be interesting to see if they can stop it.

More interesting: how much they spend attempting to stop it.

[Kenney]

I read an article that said the Coqui have invaded really nice neighborhoods in Calif. (Bel Air I think) where people can afford to import Hawaiian plants for their yards. I tried not to laugh.

[Kapoho Joe]

^^ Made my day Kenney!

[Tink]

Well, they did tell their Landscape Architect and gardener they wanted a "true Hawaiian atmosphere" in their backyard!

Community begins with Aloha

[kalakoa]

a "true Hawaiian atmosphere"

Then their landscape architect should have installed some Protectors to "occupy" the backyard against "desecration".

[Cagary]

Even way down south in San Diego, temperatures can fall into the 30's at night in the winter. As you go north, freezing temperatures are common in the winter. Heck, when Puna drops into the lower 60's they go quite because of the "cold".

I don't any frog that is native to a warm place like Puerto Rico is to survive a winter any where in California. There are plenty of frogs native to California that easily make through the winter. They can deal with cold, but coqui frogs will just die.

-Veritas odium parit”(Terence 195–159 BC))-"Truth begets hatred".

[DTisme]

They'll die at first, then they'll adapt.