They want to know this out of basic scientific curiosity, and also because wildlife managers use frog calling as a way to gauge population levels. More Information: Researchers have studied when frogs call and what fires them up. It’s impossible to know what flipped the switch on your frogs without knowing which species you were hearing and what the weather conditions were, but if I had to take a wild stab, I would guess that you had a few hot and/or windy days and the frogs stopped to wait for better conditions. Even during their mating season, frogs and other amphibians can be very sensitive to environmental factors in terms of when they call. Bullfrogs ( Rana catesbeiana), on the other hand, don’t start calling until mid-late spring and then continue well into summer. Wood frogs ( Rana sylvatica), for example, start calling when there is still ice on the ponds and call like crazy for a few weeks and then don’t make another sound the rest of the year. The breeding season of each species is different, however. Come and eat me.” So basically, frogs use their calls to get mates and then they shut up.
Of course, a calling frog also says to every predator in the area, “Here I am. The calls are basically advertisements to females to come closer and to males to stay away. The Short Answer: Frogs and toads only call when they are breeding. As hot as it has been and living a stone throw from Lake Minnetonka I would think that frogs would make noise continuously. I really don’t hear too much of the frogs now, which is weird. What happened? Did they leave? Or do they only do their frog noises for mating season? They were quite vocal for a few weeks and then all stopped! But about four days later I heard maybe a few again. Early spring, we hear hundreds if not thousands of frogs, all day and all night. The Question: I live by Lake Minnetonka in Minnesota.
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