![]() ![]() Tadpoles can reach a total length of up to 4.5 cm, and are brown in colour. Breeding BiologyĮggs are laid as clusters near the surface of the water in temporary swamps, flooded grasslands, and ponds. These frogs are known to end up in fruit markets outside of their natural distribution after resting undetected on transported banana bunches. Fingers are three-quarters webbed and toes are fully webbed, both with large discs. The backs of the thighs are purple or reddish-brown, and the hands and feet are bright yellow. The pupil is horizontal, and the iris is orange. There is a pale green or yellow stripe from the nostril to past the eye, following the top half of the eye. To this day, some gardeners grow it as an ornamental ground cover.A medium-sized species of frog reaching up to 4.5 cm in body length. Its regard as a remedy was sufficient enough that the European settlers brought it along as they colonized the Americans. It can be used as a salad green, and in years past as an ingredient in herbal medicines. It is somewhat a surprise to learn that this name is derived from the French “guiller,” and refers to its former use in the fermentation of beer. It is a mint related to catnip, and the odor of its leaves suggests that. And, pulling it up almost always leaves broken stems and root pieces that develop. Through the years I have learned that more than a turning of the soil is required to kill it. It reproduces by seed and stems that creep along and root at the nodes. I’m sure I will again need to incorporate my helper to weed the garden again before planting another late spring.įound in most backyards, ground ivy, or gill-over-the-ground, pretty as it is with its bluish-purple flowers, was my garden’s archenemy for many years. I no longer have to purchase Taylors Tea, imported from England, which, through the years, I found a delightful before-bedtime relaxant. After I was told "No.," I offered again and the owner or manager reiterated, "No!" So I gave some to friends and the rest are in the middle of the compost pile. Three or four years later, nearly all of the garden was chamomile! So this spring, I offered seedlings to one of the nearby greenhouses. Dumb me! The following spring, I must have had many hundreds of plants, maybe even a thousand. They were so were successful, I decided to let the flowers go to seed. I remember the first year I planted the six chamomile seedlings. One of the “weeds” there, which outgrows any weed, is one I planted but a few years ago. When I returned to weeding over this past weekend, which I enjoyed ever so much, I left the flower gardens and worked in the veggie garden. We found the cause - it was the male gray tree frogs calling for mates. Have you ever gone exploring in early spring and heard ducks quacking somewhere in the woods and assumed there must be a pond or lake not far off and began walking? Eventually, if lucky, like once when I was hiking with a friend in the 1960s, the quacking was very loud without a single duck to see. Maybe you have had tadpoles on the top of your swimming pool cover? The tadpoles are around 30 to double that number. It doesn’t take long for them to hatch, between two and five days. Like so many other amphibians, gray tree frogs lay thousands of eggs, in this case, up to 2,000 eggs. A month ago their calls were deafening, now far less. ![]() at my computer and from various windows I can hear the adults calling. While I hear the tree frog adults on the local trees, I have not seen one nearby. Tyning - now a Pittsfield resident and professor at Berkshire Community College - wrote of a friend’s swimming pool, while still covered, “Spring rains, however, had created numerous pockets of water on the crumpled surface of the plastic cover, and it was here that two dozen male tree frogs had set up their calling sights.” Maybe some nearby neighbors have noticed the same? I recall when reading "A Guide To Amphibians and Reptiles," author Thomas F. The tree frogs consider this a pond, and, one time, I and the grandkids netted many hundreds of polliwogs and released them in more hospitable places. It would lay its eggs early in the spring, after they removed the winter tarp from their pool, and before they began adding chemicals to the water. ![]() I remember one season, while visiting our daughter and her family in the outskirts of Holyoke, I would thrill at the amphibian, a close relative of our spring peeper (both being tree frogs). ![]()
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