by Susan | Aug 7, 2012 | Creating a Wildlife Friendly Backyard, frog calls, Learn about Frogs, Living a Frog-Friendly Life, Meet the Frogs, People Helping Frogs and Toads, Uncategorized
At Frogs Are Green, we’ve posted about tomato red frogs, blue frogs, and yellow-and-black spotted frogs, but I don’t think we’ve ever written about the Green Frog (Rana clamitans). Recently I visited my sister, who lives in the woods in Connecticut. On our first...
by Susan | May 13, 2011 | Chemicals in the Environment, Creating a Wildlife Friendly Backyard, How You Can Help, Living a Frog-Friendly Life, People Helping Frogs and Toads, Uncategorized
Each spring at Frogs Are Green, we try to encourage people to create backyards (or gardens, if you’re English) that are friendly to wildlife and the environment, water-wise, and easy to maintain without using herbicides and pesticides. Imitate Nature It is possible to...
by Susan | Oct 6, 2009 | How You Can Help, Living a Frog-Friendly Life
It’s that time of year (at least in the Northern Hemisphere) when we’re raking up leaves, cleaning up our backyards, and preparing for winter. But as we prepare for the first frost, we’re spending more time inside than outside and our backyards may...
by Susan | Aug 10, 2009 | Life Cycle of Frogs, Uncategorized
Susan and I are thrilled by the many entries we’ve received for the Frogs Are Green photo contest! If you haven’t sent in a photo, you still have time: the deadline for sending in entries is September 1st. So as you go off on vacation to the lake, woods,...
by Susan | Jun 21, 2009 | How You Can Help
Frogs lead double lives. They begin their lives as fish-like tadpoles, breathing with gills as they swim underwater, then metamorphose into their adult form, hopping onto land and breathing with lungs. As adult frogs, they have strong ties to water and most need to...
