BS: Frog Invasion!!!

Subject: BS: Frog Invasion!!!
From: Bobert
Date: 13 Jun 12 - 09:32 PM

I donno???

Seems like there are thousands and thousands of baby frogs (about 1/2 inch long) that have hatched out ('er whatever) and they are everywhere... It's hard walking without steppin' on one... They are every where... Too small to eat and too cute to step on...

What's gonna happen???

B;~(

Subject: RE: BS: Frog Invasion!!!
From: Jeri
Date: 13 Jun 12 - 09:38 PM

I think snapping turtles usually eat them.

Seriously, sounds more like peepers than baby frogs. Or just itty bitty frogs. Or hallucinations. Baby frogs are tadpoles.

Subject: RE: BS: Frog Invasion!!!
From: Bobert
Date: 13 Jun 12 - 09:48 PM

They ARE frogs!!! Just small ones... Not tadpoles... They hop... They look like small frogs... I think they are frogs???

B;~)

Subject: RE: BS: Frog Invasion!!!
From: Ed T
Date: 13 Jun 12 - 10:10 PM

Enjoy the baby swamp singers -there was worry a few years ago that they were in serious decline.

Subject: RE: BS: Frog Invasion!!!
From: Bobert
Date: 13 Jun 12 - 10:19 PM

Wanta a couple thousand, Ed??? Can be arranged...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Frog Invasion!!!
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Jun 12 - 10:26 PM

I'd be careful if I were you, Bobert. Jabba the Hutt eats those little suckers and he might be around your place.

Subject: RE: BS: Frog Invasion!!!
From: Jeri
Date: 13 Jun 12 - 10:28 PM

Are they crunchy?

Subject: RE: BS: Frog Invasion!!!
From: frogprince
Date: 13 Jun 12 - 10:39 PM

Egads; I'd never seen that. Even, for Monty Python, that is SICK !

Subject: RE: BS: Frog Invasion!!!
From: Bobert
Date: 13 Jun 12 - 10:47 PM

I ain't eatin' 'um...

Sheesh, ya'll...

B;~)

Subject: RE: BS: Frog Invasion!!!
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Jun 12 - 11:11 PM

Well, just be careful. Jabba might be around.

Subject: RE: BS: Frog Invasion!!!
From: Bobert
Date: 14 Jun 12 - 08:36 AM

Stepped on one already today just walking to the car... It was one of them squirrel in the road things... I dashed, it darted and, well, he's now in the big hollow log in the sky...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Frog Invasion!!!
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 14 Jun 12 - 08:57 AM

They're probably toads, not frogs. Frogs live their entire lives in or near water, but toads only enter the water for mating. When the toad tadpoles are mature enough to leave the water, they emerge by the bazillions and hop away to drier lives.

Subject: RE: BS: Frog Invasion!!!
From: frogprince
Date: 14 Jun 12 - 09:01 AM

Don't smear up the carpets with frogs on your shoes,
Frogs on your shoes,
Frogs on your shoes,...

(Will folks remember "Beans in Your Ears?)

Subject: RE: BS: Frog Invasion!!!
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Jun 12 - 09:08 AM

Now your shoes (I assume you WERE wearing shoes) will get warts on their soles.

Subject: RE: BS: Frog Invasion!!!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 Jun 12 - 11:01 AM

I have lots of those baby toads around here also, Bobert. They seem to lay enough eggs to have a few spares in case big-footed yard-shufflers stomp some. I encourage the toads and the lizards to hang out in my garden, they deal with a lot of insect pests.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Frog Invasion!!!
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 14 Jun 12 - 11:24 AM

Joe Clones, this thread is miss-titled. It should read, Frogs welcome Bobert to the Carolinas, Bobert over-uses "!'s"

Subject: RE: BS: Frog Invasion!!!
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 14 Jun 12 - 12:36 PM

Enjoy
We have a blocked land drain in our acre of what passes for a garden -an annual fight with the rushes and the buchalauns.
Every year a frog lays it spawn, which is quite often dried up by now by the short spells of good weather we tend to get in the west o Ireland.
This year we've kept the taddies alive by topping up with a hosepipe and we now have dozens of half-formed frogs (not toads) venturing out onto dry land.
The survivors will eventually spread all over the garden and into the surrounding fields.
Help your visitors do the same and give yourself a medal for having done your good deed for the year.
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Frog Invasion!!!
From: Bobert
Date: 14 Jun 12 - 01:15 PM

I'm purdy sure they are frogs... We have a 1/2 acre pond and the closer to the pond you get the more of these critters... Plus, taods are squatier and frogs are longer... We have baby toads, too, BTW...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Frog Invasion!!!
From: Bettynh
Date: 14 Jun 12 - 01:37 PM

Sounds like snakefood, birdfood, catfood to me. Be sure you keep your screendoor shut, Bobert. One of my cats kept bringing toads and frogs into the house only to discover (once inside) that she had NO KITTENS. She wasn't the brightest one of the herd...

Subject: RE: BS: Frog Invasion!!!
From: gnu
Date: 14 Jun 12 - 02:54 PM

When life gives you frogs...

Subject: RE: BS: Frog Invasion!!!
From: Ed T
Date: 14 Jun 12 - 02:59 PM

Lick them to see if they are Cane toads.Let us know if they are-once you come down.
If they have good sized legs, they could be the French variety.
LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Frog Invasion!!!
From: Bobert
Date: 14 Jun 12 - 03:03 PM

I ain't lickin' 'um, bitin' on 'um or eatin' on 'um...

Period...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Frog Invasion!!!
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Jun 12 - 03:07 PM

Be careful with them there frogs. They might be bad frogs.

Subject: RE: BS: Frog Invasion!!!
From: gnu
Date: 14 Jun 12 - 06:50 PM

Or Bud frogs.

Subject: RE: BS: Frog Invasion!!!
From: Bobert
Date: 14 Jun 12 - 07:37 PM

Nope, they ain't poison frogs and they ain't beer frogs... Truth be known, lotta of them are flat frogs tonight... Must stepped on a dozen or so today...

BTW, gn-ze... When you wrote "bud frogs" I was thinkin' pot... Somethin' wrong with my thinkerator, me thinks???

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Frog Invasion!!!
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 14 Jun 12 - 08:04 PM

I've got thousands of baby frogs this year. I get loads of common toads too. I talk to the big ones and tickle 'em under the chin. They come to my back door night after night and they love a bit of human company, as long as you talk to 'em. What's been a horrible cold, wet spring and June for us humans has been brilliant for amphibians. I found a dessicated newt in the bottom of a neglected plant pot, with the texture of a deep-fried sprat, all sort of stiff and dried out. Mournfully I dropped it into the pond. And guess what... (I don't even have to tell you, do I).

Subject: RE: BS: Frog Invasion!!!
From: gnu
Date: 14 Jun 12 - 09:15 PM

He was re-newt?

Subject: RE: BS: Frog Invasion!!!
From: Gurney
Date: 14 Jun 12 - 11:58 PM

Not in England since 1066....

Subject: RE: BS: Frog Invasion!!!
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 15 Jun 12 - 05:16 AM

I do like frogs. This week, I mowed the lawn. When I got to the last tuft of uncut grass - a great big frog hopped out. Cutting the long grass, I had destroyed its habitat. I must have been pursuing the poor little sod with the lawn mower, and that little tuft must have been his last refuge.

Felt like Ronald Macdonald cutting down the rainforest.

Subject: RE: BS: Frog Invasion!!!
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 15 Jun 12 - 01:40 PM

Dover Castle withstood the invasion by Louis VIII in 1216.....

Subject: RE: BS: Frog Invasion!!!
From: maeve
Date: 15 Jun 12 - 02:19 PM

For Bobert:

Hot Frogs on the Loose - Fred Small

Subject: RE: BS: Frog Invasion!!!
From: maeve
Date: 15 Jun 12 - 02:22 PM

I know; you want to learn it, right? Here are the lyrics. See if you can Blues it up some.
http://www.frogsonice.com/froggy/songs/hot-frogs.shtml

Subject: RE: BS: Frog Invasion!!!
From: GUEST,Josepp
Date: 15 Jun 12 - 03:01 PM

Sure it's not a Fortean phenomenon?

Subject: RE: BS: Frog Invasion!!!
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 15 Jun 12 - 05:52 PM

You never know where you are going to find an unexpected gem! Thanks, Maeve. I think I have 4 of Fred's recordings, but I don't think that is on any of them.

Bobert, I hope your frogs are "cold."

Subject: RE: BS: Frog Invasion!!!
From: gnu
Date: 15 Jun 12 - 06:43 PM

maeve! THANK YOUUUU! Hot Frogs? HOT DOG! That was excellent!

Subject: RE: BS: Frog Invasion!!!
From: maeve
Date: 15 Jun 12 - 08:18 PM

Pretty good stuff, eh? I heard him sing it way back when it was new, and our Bobert's plague of froglets reminded me.

Subject: RE: BS: Frog Invasion!!!
From: Bobert
Date: 15 Jun 12 - 09:04 PM

LOL, maeve... That was a hoot...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Frog Invasion!!!
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 16 Jun 12 - 03:07 PM

I haven't seen frogs this spring, but I've spotted an unusual number of tiny toads in unusual places. We don't usually see the ones that are common before they're at least 3 inches or more in body length, but these have been all less than 3/4 inch long.

It's common for the larger ones to gather near an occupied dwelling, since the light from inside attracts flying bugs to the area. In a former home they would gather on the patio slab for supper in the early evening. Occasionally I'd leave the outside patio light on to draw a few more delicacies for them.

One of their impressive features is that their tongue can flick out a little more than twice the length of their body to snag a bug that ventures near enough, and I've spent a ridiculous amount of time trying to catch a picture of the "flick" for a few disbelievers (many years ago); but the closest I ever got was one shot with a bit of bug-tail still barely visible, protruding from the mouth of one toad. They're very quick with the flick.

Even with a movie cam, the actual tongue action always came out and disappeared sometime in the space between frames, so I used the lack of success to lecture the kids about the "application of statistics to the experimental methodology of sampling for low frequency events" at one of our family gatherings.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Frog Invasion!!!
From: gnu
Date: 16 Jun 12 - 05:46 PM

JiK... party ANIMAL!

Subject: RE: BS: Frog Invasion!!!
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 16 Jun 12 - 05:50 PM

'their tongue can flick out a little more than twice the length of their body '

wish i could do that

Subject: RE: BS: Frog Invasion!!!
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 17 Jun 12 - 01:08 AM

Did you see this? Max posted it on FB. Warning: at the end, Ouch! https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PbGPKhb8ZBI

Subject: RE: BS: Frog Invasion!!!
From: Bobert
Date: 30 Jun 12 - 08:09 PM

Well, seems as if all them frogs have decided to not be frogs at all but toads... Must be a thousand within 100 feet of the house... If they all grow up to be big toads then we may be the subject of some Japanese b-rated horror movie in a few years...

But they are cute... Big enough now so that I can avoid stepping on them and their eyes are good enough to stay the heck away from stuff...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Frog Invasion!!!
From: gnu
Date: 30 Jun 12 - 08:21 PM

I love the video... buddy teasing the frog and then it bites him. I hope the wound got infected... what a cruel fuckin prick!

Subject: RE: BS: Frog Invasion!!!
From: Bobert
Date: 30 Jun 12 - 08:25 PM

I missed the video... Loved it...

B~