FROGS
Seven kinds of frogs live in Nova Scotia.
Northern Spring Peeper
These little frogs are the size of a quarter. You hear them calling “peep peep peep” from ponds and ditches on warm spring nights, But they don’t live in ponds or ditches, they live in trees!
They eat small spiders, moth larvae and water midges.
GREEN FROG
Green Frogs are common in lakes,
ponds and streams.Green Frogs eat a
great variety of small land and water
creatures. Beetles, bugs, spiders, ants,
moth larvae and snails are the big items.
WOOD FROG
Wood Frogs are brown or tan-
coloured. A dark brown mask on the
sides of the head has earned them the nickname "robber
frog”.
Wood Frog eggs
Wood Frog tadpole
Wood Frogs live in damp forests or mixed
woods.They eat a variety
of insects and other small
invertebrates, especially spiders,
beetles, bugs, moth larvae, slugs
and snails.
Northern Leopard Frog
Northern Leopard Frogs, also called meadow or grass frogs, are bright grass-green with oval black spots.
You may see them in old fields, meadows, grassy-sedge woods roads and grassy roadside ditches.
Leopard Frogs eat many insects and other
invertebrates. Since they spend so much time in
grassy places, they eat a lot of agricultural pest
insects
Pickerel Frog
Pickerel Frogs are spotted, but with odd shaped rectangular brown spots in rows.Pickerel frogs are especially common along streams and
lake shores
Pickerel Frogs eat ants, spiders, bugs, beetles, sawfly larvae, moth larva and a variety of other insects.
MINK FROG
Mink Frogs are generally green to
brown, often spotted or mottled. Their
preferred habitat is quiet waters with lots of plants like lily pads and pickerel weed.
Mink Frogs eat a variety of land and water
creatures, particularly ants, beetles, bugs,
moth larvae, spiders and flies.
When picked up, they smell like a mink (or rotting onions, if you can't quite recall the
odour of mink).
BULLFROG
Bullfrogs are our largest frog. They are found in
quiet coves of lakes with lots of vegetation,
especially water lilies. Most are green or yellow-green,
but sometimes a blue Bullfrog turns up.
The Bullfrog menu includes birds, other frogs, fish, even
their own tadpoles, as well as the usual insects. When held
by the hind legs, Bullfrogs may let out a startling scream or
squeal.
How to hold a BullfrogBullfrog tadpole
There are 2,770 species of frogs
known in the world.