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Coqui
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12-12-2005, 10:07 AM
Anyone else out there living on isle infested with frogs yet? I've been battling them for 5 years now, along with my neighbors, tried all the methods, lime, bleach, caffeine, chickens, stomping, you name it. I can drive them away from the house for a few days, but they are back from the jungle after the first hard rain. 1 or 2 singing is cute, 10,000 an acre is maddening. The county's only suggestion is to clear your lot, Not gonna happen here.
12-12-2005, 01:51 PM
It used to be so quiet here in Pahoa Village you could hear a pin drop. We're ankle deep in coqui now. I have gotten over my loathing of them and don't really hear them any more unless someone mentions it. It's a bit like when I lived on the beach - after a while you don't hear the surf.
I don't see them going away in my lifetime. I have read that frogs are a bellweather species. When they suffer it is a sign that the environment is troubled. If so our environment is in dandy shape. Chairman, Punaweb Committee, MSPA
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12-12-2005, 02:40 PM
Aloha Rob, Yes, when they're out in the yard it's just become a steady droning, but when they're perched right on the lanai screens, or when they get inside the house, We can't even hear the TV at top volume. Me and Val have to shout at each other. That's when we hand kill with a squirtbottle of bleach. Now my house has a lot of stains on the siding, my clothes too. We have some friends that won't stay after sundown because of the noise. They get in my gutters and I've found them in the catchment tank. Wonder what kind of 'itis or 'osis they might cause.
12-12-2005, 03:47 PM
Well you do have a problem then. I have been told that the county will loan out a tank and sprayer for high pressure spraying of hydrated lime. Lime will kill them and will not harm the soil.
I don't know how effective this is but sometimes ya just gotta do what ya gotta do. Chairman, Punaweb Committee, MSPA
Assume the best and ask questions.
Punaweb moderator
12-12-2005, 07:27 PM
man sounds like a b horror film, i've heard stories like yours. we had a couple across the street about a year ago and now there are thousands, but they aren't close enough to my house to bother us inside, they are pretty loud outside though. the county has a grant program that you can apply for monies to assist in eradicating them, one of our board members did and was approved in a month. but then the real work starts and to be successful you need plenty of volunteers.
12-13-2005, 08:06 AM
I've used the hydrated lime spray with temporary success, but the frogs are also of course on the lot next to me and the one behind and across the street and come right back. Most of the neighborhood is still virgin forest and shot full of pukas and lava tubes. After falling in a hole more than once here, I'm real leery about traipsing into unknown territory. Guess I'll just keeep squirting.
12-17-2005, 02:35 AM
It has been so quiet at night lately it seems like the coqui have moved away. It is the lack of rain. Very dry conditions.
Hey Leilaniguy - have the quieted down in your area? Chairman, Punaweb Committee, MSPA
Assume the best and ask questions.
Punaweb moderator
12-17-2005, 07:46 AM
Yes, the dry weather (and cool) has shut them up for a while, it's been nice the last few nights, just an occasional chirp.
12-23-2005, 10:48 AM
Looking at the Hawaiian Acres website, I clicked on their Invasive species location map and noticed there is an infestation of coquis on lower G road, near Ainaloa. This is right where my across the street neighbor has his orchid farm. I have no doubt they got there from here in Leilani, carried on his vehicles. The frogs look for any hideyhole they can find at sunrise, and the chassis and doorjambs of cars is one of their favorite spots. Friends of mine have accidently transported frogs from my house to Blacksands Beach Sub. and down Pohoiki road, causing infestations there. I noticed that the Pahoa infestation seemed to start from around Cash and Carry and the P.O. no doubt the same way.
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