#Litoria caerulea

[ljsbugblog]

the largest Green Tree Frog I've ever seen, contemplating the daisies by the pond on a warm rainy night.

Green Tree Frog (Ranoidea/Litoria caerulea).

[wonda-ch]

Green in green 💚

[birdblues]

Australian Green Tree Frog

[frog-ology]

this photo really captures everything important about me

[aticketplz]

横顔撮ろうと思ったら

こっちむいた😁

@あわしまマリンパーク

[amnhnyc]

🐸Have you ever heard of the “dumpy tree frog?” It’s a nickname that some locals use to reference the Australian green tree frog (Litoria caerulea). It inhabits Australia’s forests, swamps… and sometimes even toilet bowls! With the help of its large mucus-covered toe pads, it’s able to climb and cling to surfaces with ease. The steady secretion of mucus also helps keep its toes clean by “flushing” out contaminants and leaving them behind in the footprints! Photo: Stephen Michael Barnett, CC BY 2.0, flickr #AnimalFacts #frogs #dumpytreefrog #greentreefrog #nature #australia https://www.instagram.com/p/Cjc4F24gVGo/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[walterjenkel]

©photography by Walter Jenkel 2023 Australian green tree frog (Litoria caerulea) NON-POISONOUS FROG WALTER JENKEL @WalterJenkel walter_jenkel

#australiangreentreefrog #litoriacaerulea #ranaarboricolaverdedeaustralia #walterjenkel

[bumblebeeappletree]

Costa meets a gardener who has created a haven for frogs and gets his tips for pond design.

Sean is a garden landscaper and his own backyard is a 2.5-hectare block in the Noosa hinterland.

Here he has been able to explore his habitat hobby – building frog ponds. He has more than 50 here already and through his work reckons he has created about 600.

Sean has been creating habitat for wildlife since he was a young boy (he’d already built three by the time he was seven!) and he’s been learning about his current home environment and its flora and fauna for more than 20 years, transforming a barren horse paddock to a diverse paradise. He watches how the animals use the environment, then follows their lead to create better habitat for them.

He observed and followed the natural contours of the land to create water channels, adding mulch-like rocks and logs for extra habitat, and layers of plants, “because frogs exist in all the layers of vegetation, from trees to palms, grasses and groundcovers,” Sean explains. He has counted 17 different species of frog in his backyard.

Sean says that no matter what the type of pond or frog you want to cater for, in most climates you want the pond to receive a reasonable amount of sunlight but not too much. “Full sun will just lead to full on algae growth”

Cane toads don’t like moving through thick grass layers so he plants densely to try to keep these out.

To avoid breeding mosquitoes, Sean recommends installing a pump or waterfall to keep the water moving, but long-term he says you need patience to allow the natural ecosystem to build up, so predators will control their numbers.

Sean also grows lots of fruit and vegetables, keeping his family fed through the year, because he’s keen to show you can have both habitat and healthy food production.

Featured Frogs and Toads:

CANE TOAD - Rhinella marina

CASCADE TREE FROG - Litoria pearsoniana

GREEN TREE FROG - Litoria caerulea

EMERALD-SPOTTED TREE FROG - Litoria peronii

EASTERN SEDGEFROG - Litoria fallax

STRIPED MARSH FROG - Limnodynastes peronii

Featured Plants:

FLAX-LILY - Dianella sp.

CREEK MAT-RUSH - Lomandra hystrix

Filmed on Kabi Kabi Country | Pomona, Qld

[musical-0wl]

Top 5 frogs, go.

Oh I am so glad you asked this

1) has to go to the Green Tree Frog (Ranoidea caerulea), absolute classic frog, textbook. Just a little green guy who eats bugs. Love them.

2) the Perons Tree Frog (Litoria peronii) is a wonderful little guy. They have thunder thighs (bright marbled patterning on the inside of their legs that flashes when they jump to make predators think they're poisonous) and are also called the emerald-speckled tree frog, laughing tree frog, and maniacal cackle frog for obvious reasons.

3) goes to the Pobblebonk!! (Limnodynastes dumerilii) I love these little guys!! They go bonk bonk bonk like a banjo, wonderful

4) the Whooping Frog (Heleioporus inornatus) is native to Western Australia and sounds like a little video game character doing a jump, ain't that neat?

5) the Sunset Frog (Spicospina flammocaerulea) is a rare little guy who looks like a molten rock, but they're endangered :( hope they recover soon

Thanks again :)

[ljsbugblog]

thought I would share some of the incredible amphibian diversity we see in our garden. all of these creatures are from the same genus of treefrogs, Litoria (excepting Green Tree frogs, which are also often described as genus Ranoidea).

a Broad-palmed Rocket Frog (Litoria latopalmata), who we have spotted in the bog cave the past few nights! this species has proven to be highly variable in colour and patterning, so always interesting to encounter.

the pebble-shaped Desert Tree Frog (Litoria rubella), who hunt insects on my car in multitudes.

one of my favourites, the Peron's Laughing Tree Frog (Litoria peronii). at a distance they appear a uniform beige, but a closer look reveals flecks of emerald green across textured skin. this species tends to be a bit larger than the other frogs, but is still dwarfed by the Green Tree Frog.

a Slender Bleating Tree Frog (Litoria balatus), who I have posted before. one of the smallest of the frogs we see, but nonetheless intriguing with their yellow toes, and vibrant red eye.

last, and largest, is the conspicuous Green Tree Frog (Litoria/Ranoidea caerulea), a species found across much of the continent, and frequently found around human dwellings.

that's 5 species of tree frog all found within our relatively small garden, which is pretty amazing. we've also recently encountered a pair of Striped Marsh Frogs (Lymnodynastes sp.) around the pond (hopefully I can get a good photo soon), and of course there are the ever-present Cane Toads (Rhinella marina).

[sangijazz]

Experiment: 0022

Start of Experiment: 28/11/2009

Head Scientist of the Experiment: Doctor [REDACTED] from HR department (also known as Dr S

Genetic Making: 23% White Tree Frog (Litoria caerulea), 18% Firefly Squid (Watasenia scintillans), 31% [REDACTED], 16% Experiment 0001's DNA, 10% Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula), 2% Unknown

Biologic Characteristics:

Teeth are deep rooted similar to those found in Mammals and Crocodiles, the teeth are sharp in nature which in theory makes the experiment a carnivore (further test are to be conducted).

The subject have amphibian qualities, like frog-like skin that absorbs oxygen in water (also secrete mucous) and also a set of lungs with hidden nostrils on its face. Due to its amphibian nature, it's cold blooded, though tests and observations concluded that the subject body requires warm blood to function on its maximum capacity.

Six limbs with a similar muscle structure as a seen on a Squid adorned with sharp teeth-like bone on their ends, their function are to control the opening-and-closing of the mouth, and similar of the Venus Flytrap, most the mouth can open to 90⁰, its width reaching 0.6 m.

The blood flowing through its veins, apart from being copper-based, is biluminescent (only producing green like unlike its Squid counterpart), the biluminescence doesn't appear to be controlled by subject and the light is always present, the evolutionary purpose of it can not be concluded at the present.

Experiment has humanoid limbs with five toed feet, five fingered hands with opposable thumbs. Although, 0.8% longer than an average human, with height of 2,56 m. Theoretically bipedal, observed behavior on dry environments leads to believe the subject prefers crawling in all fours.

The experiment's brain looks human, though it is 0.5% larger than a human average. Further tests are to be conducted to test the subject intelligence and cognitive process, though from simple observations, the subject when younger (on its first five months) seemed to have the cognitive level of a human child.

Notes:

[NOTES REDACTED]

¡Upper level of access required!

Audio Transcript /05/2010 by Dr S (level 1 access)

Two-two's surgery was a success! It is still unconscious as I write this, but from the CCTV, we observed it is not shivering anymore! The tubes and hot pump need to be changed every few months but we all hope Two-Two'll be less aggressive towards the staff next time, so we won't need to restrain it during the changing process (it is not strong enough to break the restrains but it will persist until it break its bones)... I just hope it won't reject the "foreign object"( you can't see but I'm doing quotes with my hand heh) that is the pump and try to claw it out like Experiment 0031... The mess... [End of Audio]

[bestfrogbracket]

Tailed Frogs: Because the fast-flowing streams of Western North America where they are found prevent typical amphibian fertilization, this genus has developed a mechanism for internal fertilization. The “tail” of the frog is actually its cloaca, present only in males, and is controlled by a muscle unique to its genus. 45-75 eggs are laid under large rocks the spring after fertilization and tadpoles can take up to four years to metamorphosize. They lack tongues and do not vocalize. This genus is also one of the most primitive anurans still alive, with many skeletal similarities to fossils from the Jurassic period.

White's Tree Frog: This Australian frog is well-known for its prevalence in the pet trade. In the wild, it lives near water bodies or in eucalyptus trees, which often have hollows filled with water. It is actually a species complex, including the brown L. mira, found in New Guinea. Its parotoid gland secretes a waxy substance which it wipes across its body to increase moisture retention and absorption. However, this substance is also antiviral and antibacterial, and is being investigated for pharmaceutical use.

[sitting-on-me-bum]

“I’ve seen only one in my life”: the blue tree frog mystery

A blue specimen of the Green Tree Frog, Litoria caerulea.

Image credit: Bruce Thompson

[grubbinhub]

Tried to replace Charlie's bugs, he decided he would rather I didn't.

[Image ID: a whites tree frog clings to a plastic cup. Desperate to not let go of the bugs, not knowing that the bowl will shortly be replaced with even more bugs.]

[walterjenkel]

©photography by Walter Jenkel 2023 Australian green tree frog (Litoria caerulea) NON-POISONOUS FROG WALTER JENKEL @WalterJenkel walter_jenkel

#australiangreentreefrog #litoriacaerulea #ranaarboricolaverdedeaustralia #walterjenkel

[cool-critters]

Australian green tree frog (Litoria caerulea)

The Australian green tree frog is a species of tree frog native to Australia and New Guinea, with introduced populations in the United States and  New Zealand, though the latter is believed to have died out. Larger than most Australian frogs, the Australian green tree frog reaches 10 cm or more in length. Its average lifespan in captivity, about 16 years, is long compared with most frogs. Docile and well suited to living near human dwellings, Australian green tree frogs are often found on window sills or inside houses, eating insects drawn by the light. The green tree frog screams when it is in danger to scare off its foe, and squeaks when it is touched. The skin secretions of the frog have antibacterial and antiviral properties that may prove useful in pharmaceutical preparations and which have rendered it relatively immune to the population declines being experienced by many species of amphibian. 

photo credits: LiquidGhoul