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r.w.b.

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While mowing my yard on trusty rusty i picked up a hitch hiker. He didnt ride long must been too hot
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Hyla versicolor, a gray tree frog. Very neat frogs that eat bugs off plants. And they sing nicely!
 
Tree frogs are very common here. I know the guy who posted the post lives south west of me in Missouri so I know is it likely to be tree frog. Where I live they are also call peepers because of the noise they make every spring and boy can it get loud
 
That?s pretty neat . I was in Nebraska one time and I pulled into an abandoned truck stop and there was thousands of little frogs all over the place probably killed a million just pulling in and out I wouldn?t have driven in if I had known they were there
 
Its a VA case,non adjustable front axle but your rite. And i just went under a tree. Ive had them jump on me before.glad im not jumpy.
They are always welcome at my house.i watched him jump i stopped and he was headed to another tree
 
Been decades ago but I can still remember riding with my dad in a car and it started to rain real hard and then all at once it was raining frogs. Did not last very long as for the frogs raining down on us but it did happen. My dad said there most have been a tornado close and it sucked up a bunch or frogs and then let them go in the form of frog rain
 
Back when I lived in Mississippi I was out fishing on one of the Mississippi back waters and had 2 other guys with me and I was in the front of the boat. Had a cotton mouth drop out of a tree into the boat and I started to back paddle faster then the other 2 guys could paddle forward. Snake almost got in the boat but fell into the water due to me moving so fast and getting us out of its way
 
2 guys were floating spring river near me.a cotton mouth jumped in boat .1 guy opened up fire with his tarus judge and needless to say they called me to come get em.
 
There are time of the year one would think there would be so many frogs that one could not walk with out stepping on m=one going by all the tadpoles I see in my 2 small lakes
 
I was planting corn on some sandy hills and the toads were so thick it looked like the ground was moving.
 
They line up at night under a florescent light in the front barn, like an audience. Insects are attracted to the light and they feed on the insects. I've never seen anything like it. Eastern American Toad can live quite some time in captivity, 30 years, 2/3 less in wild.
 
Glad he was able to ride along and hop off safely. Lots of frogs around here, at night the trees are singing but I don't know what kind of noise they make. Assumed it was cicadas but it's a rhythmic sound, comes and goes regularly. Cicadas seem to be one continuous buzz. One time someone mentioned a fly or some other insect flying into the saw blade when cutting lumber to build a project. Just saw this firsthand--outside using my circular saw to cut plywood, the minute the sawdust started flying, a couple flies came and flew as close to blade as they could. And, yes--I do shower regularly!
 
You might be talking about Katydids. Also called bush crickets. Sometimes
around here they get incredibly loud!! Give the video a listen.
Bugs
 
(quoted from post at 17:26:51 08/21/19) You might be talking about Katydids. Also called bush crickets. Sometimes
around here they get incredibly loud!! Give the video a listen.
Bugs
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I think they must be katydids. Listened to the video, then paused it and listened to the trees outside and the sound seemed to match up pretty well, thanks! BTW great shot of the frog wearing camo in the leaves. Don't think I've seen one like that. And yes--when you stop to listen to the sounds coming from the woods, it is really loud at times! It is like call and response--one sound seems to be answering the other.
 

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I had this cute lady help me lots but she moved to springfield ,mo to farther her education.miss my daughter not being here
 
Have you noticed that some species of tree frogs, when sitting still, look exactly like the head of a snake? A protective gift of evolution, I assume. And speaking of toads, I've actually cut back on my mowing this summer because of so many toads in the grass and weeds because of the wet spring and summer. I just hate to chop up, flatten out or otherwise destroy the little guys. Lots of leopard frogs in the grass, too, but they leap fast and far to get out of the way. Toads, well, not so much. "Slow and steady" seems to be their motto.
 
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