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.