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FrogZilla
Her Royal Highness The Lady Bullfrog has been the lone bullfrog
in the pond for years. When she first showed up I assigned her capture to two teenage boys supplied with nets, pizza and pop. They spent the whole day out by the bog and never caught her. Such bravery and tricksey-ness must be rewarded so we left HRH TLB alone and the worried decimation of the native frogs never happened. Two days ago I was looking out at the pond, from the house, and spotted the biggest bullfrog I've ever seen! Youngest son stalked the frog and confirmed it was a suitor frog, a male. He managed to get a picture http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l3...rogzilla-1.jpg So HRH TLB has a boyfriend. How romantic. k :-) |
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FrogZilla
Big boy arrives!
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Phyllis and Jim wrote:
Big boy arrives! Jim You don't have anything to judge the size by, but I would guess maybe 2-3". We had "buffo"? frogs in Florida that were 5-6" in diameter. Scared my dogs. Believe they were also poisonous. That's a frog. Chip |
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FrogZilla
Chip wrote:
Phyllis and Jim wrote: Big boy arrives! Jim You don't have anything to judge the size by, but I would guess maybe 2-3". We had "buffo"? frogs in Florida that were 5-6" in diameter. Scared my dogs. Believe they were also poisonous. That's a frog. "Bufo" is just the genus name for toads - the American Toad /Bufo Americanus/ being the most common in North America. I suspect, though (especially at that size) that you're talking about Cane Toads /Bufo Marinus/ - and yes, they're poisonous (I think pretty well all frogs and toads are at least a little toxic). -- derek |
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FrogZilla
On Mon, 26 May 2008 20:29:35 EDT, Derek Broughton
wrote: You don't have anything to judge the size by, but I would guess maybe 2-3". We had "buffo"? frogs in Florida that were 5-6" in diameter. Scared my dogs. Believe they were also poisonous. That's a frog. "Bufo" is just the genus name for toads - the American Toad /Bufo Americanus/ being the most common in North America. I suspect, though (especially at that size) that you're talking about Cane Toads /Bufo Marinus/ - and yes, they're poisonous (I think pretty well all frogs and toads are at least a little toxic). There may be something in the skin, but I never noticed any toxic reaction as I was hunting or skinning American bullfrogs and the meat is delicious. -- Hal Middle Georgia, Zone 8 http://tinyurl.com/2fxzcb |
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FrogZilla
Yup, toads are nasty tasting, they have these
glands on their backs that provide them with a defense mechanism. Bullfrogs were first brought out West as menu items. They escaped the ponds where they were farmed and now are all over the place. Plus ponds shops and nurseries started selling the tadpoles for pond pets. These are probably great grandchildren of ones I got when we first put in the pond. k :-) |
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FrogZilla
Hal wrote:
On Mon, 26 May 2008 20:29:35 EDT, Derek Broughton wrote: You don't have anything to judge the size by, but I would guess maybe 2-3". We had "buffo"? frogs in Florida that were 5-6" in diameter. Scared my dogs. Believe they were also poisonous. That's a frog. "Bufo" is just the genus name for toads - the American Toad /Bufo Americanus/ being the most common in North America. I suspect, though (especially at that size) that you're talking about Cane Toads /Bufo Marinus/ - and yes, they're poisonous (I think pretty well all frogs and toads are at least a little toxic). There may be something in the skin, but I never noticed any toxic reaction as I was hunting or skinning American bullfrogs and the meat is delicious. We eat things all the time that contain toxins (oxalic acid being the most common, iirc), so that doesn't mean much. But I agree that bullfrogs are certainly not very poisonous. I think they all produce some amount of the same sorts of toxin though (ah, for the good old days when you could find professional herpetologists on rec.ponds). Cane toads, though, are _very_ poisonous. They kill dogs... -- derek |
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FrogZilla
Yesterday I noticed that the tadpoles had transformed and we now have
a new crop of little froggies! There were three lined up in a row on the ledge of the veggie filter for their first airing. Also, the leopard frogs are hanging around the little frog pond. I'll keep a look out for the egg mass. Bonnie NJ |
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