Class: Amphibia Order: Anura Family: Hylidae Genus: Acris Species: blanchardi
The cricket frog averages about .5 to 1.5 inches in length. Its body color is light brown, black, olive, tan or gray. The skin is warty. A dark triangle is present between the eyes. A dark stripe is found on the rear surface of the thigh. A tiny adhesive pad is present on the tip of each toe of the webbed feet. A light line is present from each eye to each shoulder, and there are light bars on the nose.
The cricket frog lives along the edges of streams, ponds, and ditches. Even though it is in the tree frog family, it does not live in trees. This frog is generally active during the day, but it may be active at night, too, in the summer.
In the wild they will eat small insects while in captivity they are generally fed a diet of crickets.
Help Feed Our Cricket FrogsThe cricket frog is one of the smallest animals we care for here at Wildlife Prairie Park.
The cricket frog breeds from late April through summer. The male's call is a metallic "glick, glick, glick" which sounds like two small rocks being hit together. The female deposits up to 400 eggs either singly or in small, filmy packets on the water's surface. A few days later the eggs hatch into tadpoles which have black tipped tails.
Cricket frogs are among the best jumpers in the amphibian world. They can leap more than 60 times their body length in a single jump! For perspective, that’s like a human jumping up the height of a 38-story building.
