by Susan | Dec 4, 2014 | A-Z Frogs, Amphibian habitat loss, Creating a Wildlife Friendly Backyard, Deforestation and amphibians, Environmental Health, Frog People, Frogs and Insects, How You Can Help, Insects, Learn about Frogs, People Helping Frogs and Toads, Teaching Kids about Frogs
Frogs and toads are some of nicest critters you can attract in your garden as they can improve it great deal. They have true and undeniable value but are threatened by the constant increase of urbanization. Their habitats are shrinking at an alarming rate and thus...
by Susan | Nov 18, 2014 | biodiversity, Children and Nature, Creating a Wildlife Friendly Backyard, Environmental Health, How You Can Help, People Helping Frogs and Toads, Salamanders, Teaching Kids about Frogs, wildlife conservation
Encouraging newts to your garden pond will add life and color that can be seen for much of the year. You should never remove them from the wild but there are a few steps you can take to invite them to take up residence in your pond. Newts not only add life to the...
by Susan | Sep 11, 2014 | Creating a Wildlife Friendly Backyard, Frog and Toad Migration, frog calls, Frog People, Frogs and Insects, Learn about Frogs
The story continues with Jack Stearns, a scientist and meteorologist in Massachusetts, who had rescued a Bullfrog (Bartholomew) last Winter, updates us on his progress along with a discovery of Grey Tree Frogs in the area. Bart must be happy back in his pond as...
by Susan | Sep 2, 2014 | A-Z Frogs, Amphibian habitat loss, biodiversity, Chemicals in the Environment, Children and Nature, Creating a Wildlife Friendly Backyard, Environmental Health, Frog Conservation, Frog People, Frogs and Insects, How You Can Help, Invasive Species, Learn about Frogs, People Helping Frogs and Toads, Teaching Kids about Frogs, wildlife conservation
I received yet another call from someone distressed about coqui tree frogs on her property. No, she wasn’t wanting to find out how to kill the frogs. She was trying to find out how to keep them and resist aggressive neighbors wanting the frogs destroyed. For...
by Susan | Aug 10, 2014 | Amphibian habitat loss, Children and Nature, Creating a Wildlife Friendly Backyard, Frog People, People Helping Frogs and Toads, Teaching Kids about Frogs
For most people making your garden a friendly area for frogs seems like a strange idea, but what we often don’t have is understanding. These often misunderstood amphibians are one of the nicest critters you can attract to your garden. In many ways frogs can be...
by Susan | Aug 1, 2014 | Amphibian research, Chemicals in the Environment, Chytrid disease, chytrid fungus, Climate change and frogs, Creating a Wildlife Friendly Backyard, Environmental Health, Frog People, frogs as bioindicators, Fungal infections in wildlife, Learn about Frogs, Metamorphosis, Teaching Kids about Frogs
An estimated 200,000 Wood Frog (Lithobates sylvaticus) Tadpoles in a local pond in Maine died within a few days (in 2013) from most-likely a ranavirus. A paper was recently published in Herpetological Review that is co-authored by Nathaniel Wheelwright, a biologist at...
