Quieren Eliminar al Coqui

[LillyIrizarry]

Por favor tomen esta oportunidad de pelear por nuestro Coqui adorado. La isla de Hawaii esta haciendo una propaganda para matar al Coqui porque hace mucho ruido. Lo que es para ellos una molestia para nosotros es un orgullo. Lean los articulos que publican en sus periodicos a diario y escriba su punto de vista. El coreo electronico de este periodico es:
http://growpeace.diaryland.com/
Yo no creo que este bien que se espresen de nuestro queridisomo coqui de esa manera. Es como fartarle el respeto a nuestra isla del encanto. Soy muy boricua aunque naci en Nueva York. Unanse para poder salvar al Coqui en Hawaii. Llamen a sus politicos y formen un titingo como acostumbramos cuando algo no nos gusta.
Espero ver sus comentarios agui para mandarselos al alcalde de Hawaii y sus politicos que por lo visto no tienen consiencia ni respeto a nuestra cultura.
Friday, Jul. 08, 2005 at 1:06 a.m.
Frog hell letter in Maui Newspaper today



Hey now frog fighters.

Been a long time since I updated. Below is the text of a letter I just got published in the Maui Newspaper today. I guess this will tell you what has happened with the Big Island of Hawaii and the LOUD noisy frogs. Damn if only the people had listened to us when we set up this page. Now things are just plain out of control.

If you are here for coqui frog information take heart, we have made progress in finding a frog killing brew, I will be posting it here soon. Yes I am back, check it out... Welcome me back to the wonderful world of frog blogging.

Love, Joy

I need a redesign badly I paid someone for this mess and I am not happy with it. Can someone help us please to make this site more effective. Thanks.

Maui needs to unite against the quiet-destroying coqui frogs

When coqui frogs were starting to heavily infest the Big Island, Sydney Ross Singer wrote many bad science, pro-frog letters in the Hawaii Island Journal.

It is frog hell here now. The frog shrieking is ear damaging, loud and completely unlivable at night. It is a tragedy and Sydney Ross Singer had a huge hand in making it happen.

He divided our community at the early stage in the fight, and now some neighbors are “frog zombies” quoting dogma according to Singer such as “the little frogs didn’t ask to be here,” etc.) You can’t get to the infestations on their property, so the problem goes on and on. Even if you somehow manage to get your yard quiet, you can still hear the loud frog racket surrounding you.

Hawaii lacks the large assortment of natural predators like whip scorpions and snakes that keep the frog numbers down in their natural habitats like Puerto Rico. Coqui frogs allowed to get a claw-hold here multiply until they dominate.

I am devastated to hear Singer is still writing pro-frog disinformation (Viewpoint, May 27). Please don’t fall for it Maui! You risk loosing your beautiful quiet nights forever.

If you work together as a community, I hope you can save Maui from the Big Island’s noisy fate.




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Thanks for coming by. Please bookmark, so you can come back and read our Hawaiian coqui tree frog updates. More research links, articles, poetry and funny songs from Kill the Noisy Frogs Hawaii. Aloha, Joy





"Lurking in the shadows are the noisy alien species, waiting to ruin your vacation. The hideous sounds of night are calling, it's twillight time for Hawaii."






See my entry "Friendly naked people, black sand, dolphins - Meet me at the beach" for my invitation to a special secret beach, here in Hawaii.

I was mentioned in the paper in this article. Yes folks, I am the "upset reader".
Here is my diary entry about it, finally getting through.




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Hawaiian Coqui Frog Home Page





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YES!
SQUISH
FUNGUS!
Refugia
LOST WAR?
HOW LOUD?
TACO FROG
GOOD IDEA
COQUI FILM
DEVASTATING
TOTAL CRAP!
Report Frogs
KIDS WHO CARE
Invader Facts
PARADISE LOST
Lava Park 2003
OLDER NEWS 2001
HOPE THEY CROAK
LIST OF PROBLEMS
Stop The Spread!
NEGRIL NOISY FROGS
$75 BOUNTY A FROG!
Lonely Planet Facts
Salmonella in Frogs
FIGHTING FOUL FROGS!
Sparganosis in Frogs
Tuberculosis in Frogs
ABC NEWS 2000 ARTICLE
HOW ARE WE LOSING IT?
NOISY VACATION RENTAL
REPORT-TREE FROG ALERT
ENVIRONMENT REPORT 2002
West Nile Virus in Frogs
Older Status Report 2001
Plant Inspection program
Frog Photos and Behaviour
Picture of Coqui Frog Here
OLDER NEWS - SPOT THE FROGS
ELEUTHERODACTYLUS FACT SHEET
2001 ARTICLE WITH SOUND FILES
West Nile Virus Vector - Frogs
Japanese Encephalitis in Frogs
Raging Debate Add Comments Here
THIS WEIRD LAWSUIT COULD AFFECT US?
News from 2002 - Shatters the Peace
Salmonella and Yersiniosis in Frogs
ONE WAS OK, BUT THEN HE FOUND A MATE!
SB1505 - A DAY LATE AND A DOLLAR SHORT
COMPARE ACOUSTICIS - CHARTS, SOUND FILES
Threats To This Special Place - report 2002
Puerto Rico Sticks Nose In Without Realizing the Facts.





Word of the day
Coqui: Small frog BIG sound.









"On October 1, 2001, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it had approved the use of caffeine to fight the infestation of coqui frogs in Hawaii. Coqui frogs are not native to Hawaii and have no natural enemies on the Islands. The frogs are considered pests because they compete for food with Hawaii's native bird population. The loud mating call of the coqui frog does not help its reputation: according to the Hawaii Department of Agriculture, the call of the frog sounds like a lawn mower, table saw, or helicopter."





Joy's note: Because of Sydney Ross Singer and his letters and articles they were not allowed to use the caffeine and today it sits in a warehouse. That's right, $25,000 worth of caffeine that could have saved us from this frog plauge, denied use. That caffeine is sitting there with the ancestors watching and wondering how we have allowed this to happen to this sacred land. Will our beloved Hawaiian island be infested for all eternity because of one misguided man?

Sydney Ross Singer, I challenge you to write a retraction in the Hawaii Island Journal newspaper. You need to refute your wrong headed statements and remove your pro frog website from cyberspace. Please listen Sydney, we need you to help us fight this pest, not try to convince people that the frog is our friend. The invasion by these alien frogs is the worst disaster these islands have ever endured. Look through the research links to educate yourself. Aloha.




"The fact that they undergo direct development enables the eggs and larvae enable them to be transported under a wide variety of conditions, as long as sufficient moisture is available, or the adult male is transported with the eggs. Transport of lone eggs may not be successful in some regions since they must be protected from desiccation throughout development by the adult male. This may not be the case in Hawaii, which receives more rainfall than just about anywhere on earth."



"In Puerto Rico all coquíes are called coquí even though not all sing ''co-quí''. Only two of the species the ''Coquí Común'' and the ''Coquí de la Montaña or Coquí Puertorriqueño'' actually scream ''co-quí''.Puerto Rican coquíes have relatives all over Latin America. The coquí genre is found in all the Caribbean Islands, and in Central and South America. But again, the only ones that make the sound ''co-quí'' are Puerto Rican.
The scientific name for the coquí is Eleu-thero-dactylus, characterized because they have no webbed toes. There are 16 different species in Puerto Rico and all of them have padded discs at the end of their toes which helps them climb. Coquíes are classified as amphibians - a grouping for cold blooded vertebrates that includes frogs, toads, or newts -that are able to live in both water and land.
Contrary to frogs, the coquíes do not go through a tadpole stage and break out of their egg - a small replica of their parents. Some coquíes are terrestrial some are arboreal.




"The coqui frog, however, is distinguished by the loud, continuous chirping of the male. Beginning at dusk and continuing until dawn, male coqui frogs move into the trees and call “ko-kee” over and over to attract females. The noise from a group of frogs can exceed 90 decibels, rivaling the sound of a lawnmower or chainsaw." The male frog is responsible for protecting the egg clutch laid by the female. The eggs are less than a quarter inch in diameter with about 2 to 3 dozen eggs per clutch. During the early stages of development, the eggs are milky white, but they become translucent to transparent just before hatching. Juvenile frogs hatch after 2 or 3 weeks. Unlike most frogs, which begin their life cycle as tadpoles, Caribbean tree frogs hatch into fully developed froglets."




"More than a noisy nuisance, coqui are eyed as threat to island fauna. Absent natural predators here, they are likely to wipe out many native species of insects and other small creatures in our forests. Some researchers think it's presence on the islands poses a POTENTIAL ENVIRONMENTAL NIGHTMARE of even greater dimensions."





The nightmare is NOW. Biocontrol seems the only answer. What we are enduring with this NOISY sleep depriving monster is unbearable beyond words.



If you have ever loved Hawaii, please find a frog control method. Contact me right away it you do. I have never been more eager to talk to someone. Mahalo.

[TipoConSuerte]

Hey...........los coquies belong in Puerto Rico. If they don't want them, it's their right not to have them. As long as they are not erradicated from la isla del encanto there should be no cause for alarm. El coqui es querido en Puerto Rico. No podemos exigir que sea querido en cualquier otro lugar. Ciao.

TCS

[JaneMas]

At Least They Sound Better Than Them Darn Crickets! They came with the first influx of Puerto Ricans. That's how they survived!

[BoricuaFL2]

The problem with coquis in Hawaii is that they with disrupt local and native insects. I have no problem with the coqui, in fact, I have a CD with coqui sounds and music that I listen to sometime when I cannot sleep. The introduction of non-native animals or insects is the disruption of the local ecosystem. It was like that with the rhesus monkeys in the 60s and 70s in Southwest Puerto Rico. Many of the monkeys would eat and destroy fruit and vegetables in the Lajas valley and El Combate area of Cabo Rojo. The authorities finally had to capture and in some cases destroy them. The scenario was also repeated with the introduction of Caimanes in Laguna Tortuguera in Manati. The caimans were eating the local fish and were a danger to any small child that went swimming in the lagoon. The local authorities allow for the fishing of the caimanes and people were cooking them and making Caimane pinchos! The coqui in Hawaii will not be eradicated! They have tried for years and it has exploded! Coqui, coqui!

[Independencia_PR]

Bastards, who wants to eliminate the one and only coqui, put you war face on and lets kick their arses!!!