Hello Ed, Since you writing about Frogs,i like to ad something which could
be connected with Frogs Where ever i go now looking for Dragonflies i see
and hear a lot.Some time there scare me when there clunk in to the water.
Remember i most all the time are right on the edge of ponds.But for the
first time ever i discovert WINGS from Dragonflies laying on the edges of
the pond. This is in Olympia Puget Sound Community Collage. I talk to a
lab person which collects water out of the pond for student to study. She
thinks that the frogs eat the Dragonfies when there emerge and leave the
wings behind. I found 15 Exuvia which i collected from two species the
Common Whitetail and the Eight-spotted Skimmer.I been standing on this
ponds (and there are perfect for Dragonflies)for long time try to catch the
two species of Darners which are cruising in high speed around the pond.
Also standing in this heat din't help. I am getting tired and exhausted try
to catch this Darners(Aeshna) This when i was ready to leave, there right
on the edge one Darner flew in to some grasy bushy weed, I took one more
swing, and what i had , not only one Darner but i had three alltogether.
What happen, two males went after the only female around there, so both try
to get the female and lost there coution. Females are verry hard to get ,
there are usual hiding from the agressive males. What i catched was a male
California Darner and a heterochromatic female California Darner. There are
two ponds on the grounds of this Collage there. I found 13 species for now.
Ruth Sullivan
Tacoma


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From: Ed Newbold <newboldwildlife at netscape.net>
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Subject: Pacific Chorus Frogs anyone
Date: Friday, July 09, 1999 10:05 PM

Dear Tweeters,
We have many (I counted 33 today, which I think is much less than
half)Pacific
Chorus Frogs in our small butyl ponds in residential Beacon Hill. I
believe
some can survive up here as I've heard a wild frog in our front yard a
couple
years ago April. But if anyone has a butyl pond with barely decent habitat
around it and no frogs, it might improve some of these individuals chance
of
making it to be relocated to other ponds. They are frogs now, not
tadpoles--boy was that sudden--and look to be almost a half an inch long.
They
hail from butyl habitat on Bainbridge. If anyone one wants to relocate 5 to
10, they'd be welcome. thanks.


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