Puerto Rican coquis feed primarily on arthropods. Diet varies with size and age but not gender. Smaller, juvenile frogs eat smaller prey, such as ants. Larger frogs have a more diverse diet, including larger organisms such as spiders, moths, crickets, snails and even small frogs. It seems that more than half of the adult coqui’s diet is made up of roaches and crickets and the remaining half is made up of primarily ants, due to their abundance in the forest. Their mode of predation is the energy conserving ambush method. E. coqui individuals will sit on leaves, not moving at all, until the prey is very close, whereupon they strike. They often move less than 5 cm to reach prey in a strike. E. coqui often remain at profitable foraging sites throughout the night. ("Invasive Species Database", 2005; Duellman and Trueb, 1986; Stewart and Woolbright, 1996)
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As far as mosquitos go, we have the trade winds because we are on the ocean, but we bought some "King Coils" and use them on the lanais and they seem to work really well for the residual mosquitos and gnats that were bugging my husband. They burn all night too. We have an open air sleeping room with a Thai Bed and my husband was getting bites at night. We put two coils at the entrance to the room and did not get a bite all night. He is very light skinned and they seem to go for him far more than me. [8D]
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there's such a hullaballoo (spelling)on o'ahu "now" that the coquis have reached kailua. they have been here for years on different parts of the island. we caught two several months ago and our neighbor one.
regarding the mosquitoes: how do you put up with the smell of the coils? we are medium complexion and they still come after us. those buggers don't discriminate. so you think that one of those bug zappers would work? how about a mosquito net over the bed?
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I recomend you ladies take testosterone for mosquito control. My arms are so hairy, they have no place to land :-)
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um. no thanks. i'd rather dress up as a coqui than look like a bear.[  ]
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hi rbakker,
you said something implying the guy was a kook for believing bras cause cancer.
No comment on the kookiness over coqui, but bras and and do cause cancer, that is underwire and tight bras ... I believe they restrict lymphatic drainage and circulation which hampers the immune system in fighting damaged cells, but it definitely has to do with the tight restriction. Straight from the doctor, not a weird theory.
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http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=fact...use-cancer
"Weiss says that although the idea of having one's breasts in cages with metal wires "impeding fluid and marinating breast tissue in toxic liquid" sounds like a reasonable explanation for cancer, it is not. In fact, as she points out, far from being trapped, bodily fluid actually travels up and out of the armpits, not down toward the underwire. "
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The guy has made a judgment that this invasive species that is so prolific needs a "sanctuary". What I find so offensive is his lack of logic and lack of consistency. Does sanctuary exist if it is not needed? An organism that reproduces in such huge numbers must be changing the environment somehow. At the very least he ought to be curious about what those effects might be on the very large number of native hawaiian species that are at risk. To say the coquies need a sanctuary implies he has evaluated the risks to them. How can anyone (including himself) take him seriously when he is so flippant about such a radical change to an ecosystem with so many critically endangered species?
Why does this guy remind me of that weirdo in Kalihi who wears socks on his hands, thinks the media is working for cannibal aliens, and injects people with who knows what? You know the guy renting "apartments" of tarp covered scaffolding that collapsed.
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The coil smells do not bother me, but for some they do. It they are on the perimiters they are not bad. I would rather have them around than use toxic stuff on my husband's skin. Yes, a mosquito net might work, we stayed at a B & B on Reeds Island that had them. We have a machine called a mosquito magnet that we used at our lake house in IL. When we moved to CA we did not need it, but we may re-employ it in Hawaii. It omits a C02 gas into the trap with heat and we got hundresd of mosqitos in the trap each week. My husband is like BAIT to them, they seem to love him and always have. Fortunately, living on the ocean helps with a breeze. There are a lot more bugs in general in Hawaii, partially because of the climate I am sure. I have never seen so many fruit flies! At least they don't bite.
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there's such a hullaballoo (spelling)on o'ahu "now" that the coquis have reached kailua. they have been here for years on different parts of the island. we caught two several months ago and our neighbor one.
regarding the mosquitoes: how do you put up with the smell of the coils? we are medium complexion and they still come after us. those buggers don't discriminate. so you think that one of those bug zappers would work? how about a mosquito net over the bed?
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Damon, as usualy you have provided some great information!
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Puerto Rican coquis feed primarily on arthropods. Diet varies with size and age but not gender. Smaller, juvenile frogs eat smaller prey, such as ants. Larger frogs have a more diverse diet, including larger organisms such as spiders, moths, crickets, snails and even small frogs. It seems that more than half of the adult coqui’s diet is made up of roaches and crickets and the remaining half is made up of primarily ants, due to their abundance in the forest. Their mode of predation is the energy conserving ambush method. E. coqui individuals will sit on leaves, not moving at all, until the prey is very close, whereupon they strike. They often move less than 5 cm to reach prey in a strike. E. coqui often remain at profitable foraging sites throughout the night. ("Invasive Species Database", 2005; Duellman and Trueb, 1986; Stewart and Woolbright, 1996)
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Isn't the entire eastern half of our island already a coqui sanctuary? Our leaders had a chance to do something about it years ago and chose to do nothing, or at least nothing that worked.
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