Pickerel Frog
(Rana
palustris) |
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DESCRIPTION: Spotted, but with irregular
rectangular brown spots in rows. This is the main way to tell
them from Leopard Frogs, which have black oval spots. The basic
colour is yellow-brown with orange on the groin and the
underside of the back legs.
RANGE: Canada: Nova Scotia, New Brunswick,
southern Quebec and southern Ontario. In the United States,
south to the Carolinas and as far west as Wisconsin and eastern
Texas.
HABITAT: common along streams and lake shores near inlets and
outlets. They also forage along grassy-sedge woods roads,
roadsides, meadows and old fields.
FOOD: Ants, spiders, bugs, beetles, sawfly larvae, moth larva
and a variety of other invertebrates. |
