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[weirdponytail]

Made a friend!

[whatnext10]

An Unusual View of a Beautiful Green Tree Frog

An Unusual View of a Beautiful Green Tree Frog

Below the Tree Frog As many of you know, I love green tree frogs! They are pretty common around here in the warmer months of the year, and I always have a bunch of them. They are attracted by the fact that I have several water sources available for them to lay their eggs in. They also like to get on the windows at night. The lights from inside the house attract all sorts of moths and other…

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[eyeslady7405-blog]

[rae-redacted]

Well here's the little pup I caught and brought to safety tonight!

[manateese]

So in honor of earth day I wanted to make a post about a very important part of our ecosystem: indicator species. Like frogs! Indicator species are so important because they let you know how healthy the water is. If the frogs are all getting sick and dying it's one of the first signs that there is something seriously wrong with the local ecosystem! So the happier a frog is, the happier manatees are <3

[eatsflorida]

"In 1990, several Fellsmere citizens expressed concern about the lack of funds for the children's recreation.  As a result, Fran Adams and the local residents got together and came up with the unique idea of a Frog Leg Dinner to entice people to come out to Fellsmere and to help raise the necessary funds. 

 Unaware that the Frog Leg Dinner would be such a success, many of the volunteers helped set up for the first dinner and then left thinking they would not be needed.  Wrong!  The few remaining volunteers worked frantically until every Frog Leg Dinner was served.  400 Dinners were sold that night and thus, the beginning of what we now know as the Frog Leg Festival.  

We take pride that since the festival's inception over $500,000 has been donated to youth recreation and to the volunteer organizations that give of their time and their efforts to work at the festival."   Read more here.