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How do you discourage Cuban Tree Frogs?

11 years ago

We have a veritable orchestra of Cuban Tree Frogs frolicking under our bedroom window-ALL night. The vocal evidence of amphibious love is deafening at 2am!! While I do NOT want to obliterate them, I would LOVE to discourage them from using this garden space as their little private Club Med. The large sticky poops & poop streaks on the wall are not making them popular, either. Help, anyone?????? (We are in Central Florida, btw)

Comments (3)

  • 11 years ago

    Frogs are a sign of a healthy environment-they are often the first to disappear when things go wrong. Sorry you are having the troubles you are, but I would love to have tree frogs here! I always enjoyed hearing them when I was growing up in Pennsylvania (not the Cuban ones probably). You might try leaving a radio on over night for a few nights to encourage them to move on. Ear plugs are another option! :)

    I wonder if you washed down the walls with soapy water and then didn't rinse for a few days if the soap smell would also discourage them from climbing the walls.

    Sorry, I have no real tried and true remedies. Hope someone else chimes in to help.

  • 11 years ago

    Thanks Cyn427! Great suggestions. I love the sound of good ol' native Florida tree frogs, and encouraged what I thought were a slightly different variety when my Cubans 1st arrived about a year ago. CTFs sound like a really loud, squeaky, rusty massive gate swinging in a tornado, at all different pitches & keys. The noise is maddening! I did try soap n water sprays, vinegar & water (that kindof worked, at first, killed my grass & begonias, tho), tobacco tea, oil & soap (i use this for whiteflies, aphids, etc), garlic emulsion sprays - all to no avail. I dumped & relocated my rain barrels, moved 90% of the plants under our bedroom window area, left lights ON, left lights OFF, prayed, cussed, ....nothing worked! Our local black snake and corn snake population won't even eat them! These are some bitter, tenacious little rascals! Ear plugs only muffled the sound a little bit...... (sigh) but not enough to STAY asleep. We finally resorted to Removal.......SUCCESS! They are down to a manageable 2 or 3 now . And the geckos & REGULAR tree frogs are coming back. Hooray! Our neighbors chuckled & thought we were absolutely bat-crazy during the process, until the congregation moved into THEIR side yard. I now see them out at dusk, with their butterfly nets & strainers.....hunting big amphibious game, haha. :)

  • 11 years ago

    Oh, that is so funny! Glad the natives are returning and you are moving back into sanity! ;) what a nightmare you went through! I will go to sleep tonight giggling while I picture your neighbors chasing the frogs down with butterfly nets and strainers! Haha.

    Cynthia

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