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I initially wondered what the fuss was about. I had the same opinion many have, that it can't be that bad, that people will get used to it, some people like to argue, etc. I could hear them from a distance in those places I was initially visiting. One evening however I visited someone in the heart of Puna coqui country where there was forest right up to the door. I was shocked. There must have been a dozen within 10 feet of me. The noise was terrific.
My point is that I was initially skeptical but was convinced when I came across the right conditions. They are all around my place in Eden Roc but I have a fairly large space cleared so am never closer than 30 or 40 feet unless I go looking for them.
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Try talking to someone that lives in an infested area on the phone at night.
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I guess my point is... are they really such a nuisance that you would want government workers trampling your yards, spraying whatever the latest chemical is onto your plants without your consent???
exactly, my point too! Besides why is everybody so anal about these frogs & their noise levels? Majority of you probably moved from a place that had more noise pollution than what these little buggers create now? I'd hope everybody could just put these little guys out of sight! & mind? Folks, life is to short to get uptight over frogs of any kind in my opinion.
Besides, who knows if the economy keeps taking a dive. Those little creatures my end up on the barbecue menu in the near future
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I guess my point is... are they really such a nuisance that you would want government workers trampling your yards, spraying whatever the latest chemical is onto your plants without your consent???
exactly, my point too! Besides why is everybody so anal about these frogs & their noise levels? Majority of you probably moved from a place that had more noise pollution than what these little buggers create now? I'd hope everybody could just put these little guys out of sight! & mind? Folks, life is to short to get uptight over frogs of any kind in my opinion.
Besides, who knows if the economy keeps taking a dive. Those little creatures could end up on the barbecue menu in the near future![]
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There is a solution, we just haven't found it yet.
no Beachboy, I did not move from somewhere with more of a noise problem. And the only thing I can compare to the frogs is having a particularly yappy dog barking all night long under my window ... and every night, only you have to imagine there are more and more dogs as time goes by.
You are comparing general urban noise pollution with specific rhythm high decibel repetitve noise and that's apples and oranges. Compare having various traffic noises and car alarms going off intermittently in the general neighborhood with having an ambulance siren going in your yard for 12 hours, or a car alarm in your yard that never turns off. The frogs are a little quieter, but what you are not understanding it seems is the difference between noise somewhat removed from you and noise generated only a few feet from you.
Noise such that you literally can't hear your TV even if you turn it up, or hear the person you're talking to on the phone ... that goes all the time. And you can't do anything about it. Makes a person cranky.
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UMMM, I was backing up in the hotel parking lot and I kept stopping when someone was whistling at me in warning...
well at least I was able to drive away once I determined I had found worlds loudest coqui frog.
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That's impossible Sean...I'm sure the loudest is in my yard. Just kidding - I know they bother many. We don't mind them. We don't even hear them most times 'cause we've adapted. But I WILL say that if there's one under your bedroom window you might be the first one to jump up with a saw to cut the bush or tree down!! (Right, Royall?) LOL
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There is only a few coqui around our house, not a problem right now, but these crickets, wow. Are they new? The crickets go day and night and get in the house. The pitch is at the right level that really irritates me. I should make a trap and feed them to the tilapia, must be some way to bait them into a screen box.
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There are so many non-profits profitting on this island from the woes of others; I'm embarassed. To have a pseudo-nature loving, book selling, bed and breakfast with an eco-tourism gimmick cloaking themselves as a 'sanctuary' and calling a 90 decibled, exponentially reproducing anything as being cultural is irresponsible and reprehensible. That they went so far as to invoke the spirit of Pu-uhonua is unforgivable.
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