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Green Tree Frogs

17 years ago

Greetings,

I have a 22' X 24' greenhouse and late this summer I was given a couple green tree frogs that were supposed to take care of my fly, cricket, moth & aphid problems in my greenhouse. I know they are not water frogs, but I do have a pond in my greenhouse which helps keep the humidity quite high. My concern is this:

I'm keeping the greenhouse at 40 deg in the evenings and it reaches 60 - 80 deg during the day. I have a heat lamp but they do not sit by the heat lamp. Since the temps started reaching 40 deg in the evening I've not seen the frogs at all. I'm wondering if they did not bury themselves in the soil of one of my plants.

Do you think they hibernating? How long can they hibernate? They are not eating the crickets I'm putting out. Does anyone have any ideas on making certain my little tykes make it through the winter here?

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

~Tj~

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