What's happened to all the Frogs ?

[worgeordie]

It's the rainy season but there seems to be no frogs about in my area,

Chiang Mai, there's a river at the back of my house, and i have several

ponds in the garden ,but there have been no frogs about, making the

usual racket with their mating calls,

 

Frogs are like the Canary in the coal mine, they are the first to suffer

if there is any change in the environment, what about where you live

still have plenty of Frogs about ?

 

Also Termites have not been swarming ,as they usually do before

a rain storm ,in the past you had to put the lights off and close

the curtains when 1000's were attracted to the house lights, this

year we have had only one small swarm. a good thing but unusual. 

 

regards worgeordie

 

 

[Kadilo]

They are all stuck in...........oh maybe not a good idea. 

[Pilotman]

1 minute ago, Kadilo said:

They are all stuck in...........oh maybe not a good idea. 

fill in the gap eh? 

[Peter Denis]

Most of them already returned to their home-country. ????

[Kadilo]

Just now, Pilotman said:

fill in the gap eh? 

Yeah for a guaranteed ban lol

[Kadilo]

Just now, Peter Denis said:

Most of them already returned to their home-country. ????

Bravery award goes to ..........

 

edit: Quick Peter, edit, we need you for the Visa advice. 

Edited August 31, 2020 by Kadilo

[Pilotman]

I have absolutely no idea what anyone is referring to. 

[sirocco]

We should look on the side of French immigrants.
With garlic butter, a white wine, they love it.
 

[trucking]

 

What happened to all the frogs ?

 

Not enough rain. They croaked it.

 

 

[Kwasaki]

There's been a few our village, usually have loads in August but because of C19 and Thai govt is not letting them in.

[LogicThai]

Here in Buriram, there does not seem to have been a drop in the population of frogs. This said, we recently adopted a young cat, who goes around the garden catching all sorts of critter, so that frogs might avoid the place from now on, but they still seem to be present outside of the walls.

On the other hand, despite plenty of heavy rain, there has been no swarm of alates yet. Actual grown-up termites are still alive and well, though, and need to be fought vigorously. Ants of all sorts, and bees, are also present. Not sure how their present activity compare to "normal", but there does not seem to be any sign of collapse of the insect populations.

[Susco]

I don't have any frogs, but I seem to suffer from a snails attack. Do snails eat frogs?

[RJRS1301]

Could have something to do with marauding dogs and cats feasting on them.

Or check sales at the local markets, beside the rat curry

[CorpusChristie]

[Dumbastheycome]

I can agree  with the  OP . It was noticeable  last year but this year much less.

I also agree that the nightly insect swarms to light sources are  rare or non prolific.

 

[Dumbastheycome]

5 minutes ago, CorpusChristie said:

Toad?

[CorpusChristie]

Theres not been much rain here this year , frogs breed in water , maybe its the lack of water ?

[DrTuner]

They moved to my pond in Pattaya. Billions of them judging by the noise. How much does a good flame thrower cost these days?

[nikmar]

there was a dead one in my soi the other day. Flat and crispy - gop grop!!

[Kadilo]

8 minutes ago, Dumbastheycome said:

Toad?

Give him a break, he tries his best 

Edited August 31, 2020 by Kadilo

[2 is 1]

My mother in law have eat them all! Lats one stare me in shower room!

[Kadilo]

27 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

There's been a few our village, usually have loads in August but because of C19 and Thai govt is not letting them in.

Cracked it !

 

Wait til they all get out of quarantine. Will be bedlam. 

Edited August 31, 2020 by Kadilo

[Seeall]

They came to Phuket for a vacation from you guys eating them!

[CorpusChristie]

19 minutes ago, Dumbastheycome said:

Toad?

As they all make noises, its not necessary to differentiate between frogs and toads in this instance 

[Matzzon]

We have loads of them, as soon as there is a rainy day, they are making their sounds at night.

[dabhand]

In my part of East Pattaya the frog chorus is no different to past years. Quite a relaxing sound to head off to sleep with, once you get used to it.

As for the pre-rainfall swarms, yes, a noticeable reduction in that activity. Previous years there was a rush to close off the windows / doors when they started heading towards any internal light source. This year, very few occasions of that happening. 

 

Slightly off topic but on the very few occasions I have driven long distances in the UK in the recent past (last 10 years or so) there was very little, if any, insect splatter, either on windscreen or front body work. Going back 45 years or so, I used to travel a lot from W/Central  Scotland to Leicester / Nottingham and a thorough cleanup was always needed after any trip. More traffic to spread the load, or fewer insects for some reason?

[Kwasaki]

10 minutes ago, Kadilo said:

Cracked it !

 

Wait til they all get out of quarantine. Will be bedlam. 

Oh sorry I thought OP meant what us English call the French. ????????????

[douglasspade]

9 minutes ago, LogicThai said:

Here in Buriram

Just had a walk inside one of our rice paddies, not even sinking away. Grass and ants rule it. Nobody has even topped or thrown fertilizer yet. There is no sign of the monsoon rains here. You can still cross the Surin Province border river by foot, it's been like that since before April. Dry! I am dying to catch a river Barb!

No Frogs, No Crabs, No terrapins in my pond, just dragonflies ominously hanging over the buffalo dung that float around.

 

We are just 30km east from Buriram. May I borrow some water?

 

[Justgrazing]

1 hour ago, worgeordie said:

no frogs about in my area,

possibly hopped it all Geordie .. 

[trucking]

We all know the word for frog ..................gop.

 

But whenever I see one and say to the wife " Look....a gop "  She never agrees that it is a frog.

 

They have so many words for frogs , depending on size , color , habitat , hairstyle and political views that I can honestly say that in all my time here I have never seen a common bona fide frog.