Spring always arrives with flowers, rain, and a lot of bugs. Luckily, there’s a little exterminator always on the job. It turns out that many people don’t even think about the frog for one second of their life. They may be more interesting than you think.
Over time, frogs have adapted their abilities to swim, jump, and camouflage themselves. Usually, a frog can jump up to about 3 feet, but when it jumps a shorter distance, it is called “leaping.” Adult frogs usually eat flies, spiders, insect larvae, earthworms, and sometimes, their larvae as their diet.
If you hate mosquitoes, flies, and other flying pests, you can bring a frog into your yard. They’ll eat all the pests up, and during the summer and spring, you’ll have fewer mosquito bites. I recommend trying to make a little man-made pond to make the frogs feel at home. A few kinds of frogs I say are best are bullfrogs, (As long as you can tolerate the noise) Pacman frogs, and most kinds of tree frogs. The more frogs the merrier!
The toad, a specific kind of frog, is a bit more dangerous. Toads have very knobby, poisonous skin. They also have venom glands behind their eyes, which they use to shoot venom at anything threatening.
There are about 5,000 different kinds of frogs, but the one many people know is the poisonous dart frog. The dart frog is commonly found in rainforests. They, like the monarch butterfly, have evolved to warn off predators by exhibiting bright colors. Some dart frogs are blue and black; some are red and yellow; some are very bright green.
These amphibians, an animal that can both go on land and survive in water, lay their eggs in water. They start as eggs, then become tadpoles, and slowly grow limbs. Then they leave the water and repeat the cycle. But some frogs don’t exactly lay their eggs in a pond or a lake like you’d expect.
The phantasmal poison dart frog is a kind of dart frog that also lives in tropical areas. Instead of laying eggs in a pond, lake, or a big body of water, it lays its eggs in leaves that hold water. This might seem strange, but this frog’s tadpole will still survive.
Though these little creatures may be sometimes dangerous, small, and seem insignificant to us, remember that they have more interesting features than you might think.
Over time, frogs have adapted their abilities to swim, jump, and camouflage themselves. Usually, a frog can jump up to about 3 feet, but when it jumps a shorter distance, it is called “leaping.” Adult frogs usually eat flies, spiders, insect larvae, earthworms, and sometimes, their larvae as their diet.
If you hate mosquitoes, flies, and other flying pests, you can bring a frog into your yard. They’ll eat all the pests up, and during the summer and spring, you’ll have fewer mosquito bites. I recommend trying to make a little man-made pond to make the frogs feel at home. A few kinds of frogs I say are best are bullfrogs, (As long as you can tolerate the noise) Pacman frogs, and most kinds of tree frogs. The more frogs the merrier!
The toad, a specific kind of frog, is a bit more dangerous. Toads have very knobby, poisonous skin. They also have venom glands behind their eyes, which they use to shoot venom at anything threatening.
There are about 5,000 different kinds of frogs, but the one many people know is the poisonous dart frog. The dart frog is commonly found in rainforests. They, like the monarch butterfly, have evolved to warn off predators by exhibiting bright colors. Some dart frogs are blue and black; some are red and yellow; some are very bright green.
These amphibians, an animal that can both go on land and survive in water, lay their eggs in water. They start as eggs, then become tadpoles, and slowly grow limbs. Then they leave the water and repeat the cycle. But some frogs don’t exactly lay their eggs in a pond or a lake like you’d expect.
The phantasmal poison dart frog is a kind of dart frog that also lives in tropical areas. Instead of laying eggs in a pond, lake, or a big body of water, it lays its eggs in leaves that hold water. This might seem strange, but this frog’s tadpole will still survive.
Though these little creatures may be sometimes dangerous, small, and seem insignificant to us, remember that they have more interesting features than you might think.
