little green tree frogs

[Dick7Access]

I searched for a forum where I could ask a question about little green tree frogs, but everybody wants me to join, so here is hoping that somebody on Access also know something about little green tree frogs. If you do, and you would care to answer my question please respond.

 

[Isskint]

Well i am no David Attenborough (and amphibs are not my biggest nature interest - I am more a Reptiles man) but I can but try.

 

[Dick7Access]

Thanks for answering. In the last two weeks I have found three of those little critters in my bathroom. Once in the toilet, once in the shower and once on the divider between the shower and toilet. For starters I live in rural Florida and have a septic system and not city sewage. Is it possible that they are getting inside the sewage pipe and swimming up thru the trap in the toilet? Secondly are they ever poisonous?

 

[Isskint]

I do not think they are poisonous. I suppose it is possible they are getting in through the pipes, but if they are like reptiles, they prefer clean water. It is more likely they just 'hop' in through an open door etc. Do you have cats? Cats LOVE frogs. They make a 'lovely' squealing noise when played with!!!!

 

[Dick7Access]

Not a open widow in the whole hose. I do leave the door open when I go out to my RV or truck to get something, But the door is 12 feet from the bathroor, why would they all end up in bathroom and not stay in the room they enter.

 

[Isskint]

But the door is 12 feet from the bathroor, why would they all end up in bathroom and not stay in the room they enter.

Ah that i think i may know. Most amphibs can "smell" water (or moisture). The room most likely to be 'moist' would be the bath/shower/toilet. Refering back to the cat issue, the downstairs toilet is where we most often find frogs that have 'escaped' the cats idea of 'fun'.

 

[Fifty2One]

Tree frogs are goodly to have around, they eat crickets, small cockroaches and other undesirable crawling insects. The must have come in through an open door, window or something because they are not the best swimmers, and would most likely not come through the exit pipes via the septic field.
If they are not actually 'bothering you' or bothersome, just let them outside, they will not over populate you like insects will and actually they will control the crawling insect population. Similar to encouraging bats purple martins or swallows if you have skitos.

 

[Dick7Access]

Tree frogs are goodly to have around, they eat crickets, small cockroaches and other undesirable crawling insects. The must have come in through an open door, window or something because they are not the best swimmers, and would most likely not come through the exit pipes via the septic field.
If they are not actually 'bothering you' or bothersome, just let them outside, they will not over populate you like insects will and actually they will control the crawling insect population. Similar to encouraging bats purple martins or swallows if you have skitos.

Are they tasty

 

[recyan]

You, Sir, are irrepressible.

 

[Fifty2One]

I am surprised more people did not hop on this thread.

 

[Vassago]

It might leave them a little green.

Seriously though, no, green tree frogs are not poisonous, and as stated above, are actually very beneficial to have around the OUTSIDE of your home. They eat mosquitoes, roaches, and many other pests that try to make their way into your home. I would take them outside and release them.

Around my last house I had Brazilian transluscent geckos, green tree frogs, toads, bats, and those big jumping wolf spiders. I left them all alone and they left me alone. I also never saw a single mosquito and I lived by a creek.

 

[Dick7Access]

You, Sir, are irrepressible.

Have you bee talkig to my wife? She says the same thing!!

 

[Dick7Access]

I am surprised more people did not hop on this thread.

recyan said I am irrepressible, but the more I think about it I am thinking a better adjective would be senile. It took me a long time to get the jest of your post. HOP

 

[Dick7Access]

It might leave them a little green.

Seriously though, no, green tree frogs are not poisonous, and as stated above, are actually very beneficial to have around the OUTSIDE of your home. They eat mosquitoes, roaches, and many other pests that try to make their way into your home. I would take them outside and release them.

Around my last house I had Brazilian transluscent geckos, green tree frogs, toads, bats, and those big jumping wolf spiders. I left them all alone and they left me alone. I also never saw a single mosquito and I lived by a creek.

Yes, I try and put them outside but sometimes they are hard to catch.
One however wasn't so lucky. Until I started this thread I did not know sometimes they are brown and not green. Late one night I look in the toilet and right at the water line was this small glob of feces. I sprayed some toilet bowl cleaner on it. My glob of feces hopped. It fell back into the water so I just flushed it down.