This has been an excellent summer for my small friends, the frogs. I routinely find them in the lettuce, the beans, the rhubarb, the lilac bushes, and now the tomatoes!
This guy is checking out a Zapotek pleated tomato that is coming along nicely.
What a cutie you gotta love those little guys, thanks for sharing!
That is a fantastic picture!
Here's another one of a frog in the lilac bush. The great thing about photographing frogs is that they're pretty good about sitting still long enough for me to get the picture.
Oh, they are so cute! Thanks for posting your froggie friends!
Do you think he's guarding your tomato from hornworms?
How adorable!! The second guy looks like he is giving you an impish grin!!
I think a hornworm would be at least twice as long as my tomato inspector. Pacific tree frogs are supposed to eat "a variety of invertebrates," which doesn't tell me much. I'd like to convince them that cucumber beetles are very tasty.
The guy in the lilac bush does sort of look like he's smiling. On the other hand, perhaps we're mis-reading him entirely, and he's practicing his "I can kill you with my brain" look.
LOL!!!
Great frogs! They are so useful in bug control. You are lucky to have them visiting in numbers.
Can you tell me which bugs they're eating? I haven't yet found any information on this.
What's really interesting is how many more frogs there seem to be now, compared to when I moved here three years ago. The prior owners grew nothing other than grass. I'm growing lots of vegetables and flowers and I'm wondering if this is why I've got more frogs - I've created some habitat for them? My house backs onto a greenspace that includes a seasonal pond, so until the pond dries up there are frogs *everywhere*. We had a dry spring this year so the pond dried up early, and we've had a comparatively cool summer, so I think the frogs are more visible than during really hot summers.
I feel rather honored that some of them have decided to come live at my house for the summer.
