Baby treefrog season

[smweaver]

I went outside this morning to water the orchids and noticed several baby treefrogs scrambling out of the bottom drainage holes of the larger pots and jumping up the legs of the iron plant stands. This would probably help to explain why I'm seeing far fewer spiders this year (normally my front porch is something of a wolf spider sanctuary during the summer). I usually avoid the word cute whenever possible, but in this case I think it might be applicable (to the frogs, not so much the wolf spiders). To give an idea of the size of the frogs, the black metal stand legs that they're pictured with are approximately one-fourth of an inch wide. Hopefully they'll all migrate to some trees or shrubs before I bring everything inside this fall. I would love to have frogs in the sunroom over the winter, but I think the frogs need to hibernate. Although this is a member of the genus Hyla, I'm not sure what species it is (possibly Hyla versicolor). And this is one more good reason not to use pesticides.

Steve