Click on the link below for sound:
This may sound "sweet and natural" to you, but just get 2-3 of these little guys on your house or worse yet, on your windowsill, and you will not sleep!! Last night we killed our third coqui -- and are getting better at it, but as you can see, you'd have to collect at LOT of frog legs before you'd have a meal!
When we go for walks in our own subdivision, the sound is very loud if you pass acreage that has overgrown - that is one reason we are working hard to clear our land and keep foliage away from the house.
The coqui frog, Eleutherodactylus
coqui Thomas (Anura: Leptodactylidae), was accidentally
introduced into Hawai'i from Puerto Rico in about 1988. Aside from being a
major noise nuisance, the frogs pose a threat to Hawai'i’s island ecosystem.
Coqui frogs have a voracious appetite that puts Hawai'i’s unique insects and
spiders at risk. They can also compete with endemic birds and other native
fauna that rely on insects for food. The frogs are quite adaptable to the
different ecological zones and elevations in the state and have been found from
sea level to 4,000 feet elevation (at sites in Volcano on Hawai'i.) Coqui populations have exploded
in the last 20 years from presumably a single infestation to over hundreds of
infested areas on the Big Island alone. College of Tropical Agriculture at University of
Hawaii
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