Growing Frogs in the Garden

Everyone knows that frogs can be found near lakes, ponds, and streams, but we have frogs growing in our garden.

The nearest body of water is several blocks away, but when someone walks through our garden, large numbers of frogs (and toads) hop out of the way. Perhaps there are so many frogs in our garden because we have sprinklers set up, there are areas of tall weeds for frogs to hide in, and there are good places for the frogs to sun themselves.

We caught one of these frogs and it appears to be a mix of the two different colors of Northern Leopard Frogs.

We’ve been offering our frog several different insects to see what it would eat and we were amazed when it ate a large grasshopper that was around this size:

We plan to feed and observe the frog for several days and then return it to the garden.

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