{"id":2658,"date":"2013-04-10T07:34:35","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T11:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/?p=2658"},"modified":"2013-04-10T07:34:35","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T11:34:35","slug":"peepers-wood-frogs-glow-worms-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/2013\/04\/peepers-wood-frogs-glow-worms-oh-my\/","title":{"rendered":"Peepers &#038; Wood Frogs &#038; Glow Worms, Oh My!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I take essentially the same walk every day &#8211; one mile up the hill &amp; back on my dirt road &#8211; often at the same hour. \u00a0Some may find that boring, I find it fascinating to watch the little changes from day to day.<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s really noticeable when on Monday morning I hear nothing and on Tuesday morning the ponds at the top of the hill are LOUD with sounds of Spring Peepers &amp; Wood Frogs. \u00a0In the 5AM still I could hear the peep, <em>peep<\/em>, PEEP, peep, <em>peep<\/em>, PEEP from more than 100 yards away.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Spring peeper (Pseudacris crucifer) calling\" width=\"760\" height=\"570\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uhBsNqF7Hkk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As I got closer the garbling of the Wood Frogs made itself well known. \u00a0If I were to guess, I&#8217;d say that the Peepers were in the front pond, the Wood Frogs in the back pond.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Mating Wood Frogs, Rana sylvatica\" width=\"760\" height=\"570\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7kYmB474-3U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Peepers and Wood Frogs are a joy to me. \u00a0I don&#8217;t have the right kind of habitat for them on my property, although a few always set up housekeeping in the roadside ditch (poor choice), so I mostly get to hear them on my walks.<\/p>\n<p>Then this morning, after some overnight rain, I was graced by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firefliesandglow-worms.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">glow worms<\/a> &#8212; aka lightening bugs or fireflies. I think it&#8217;s quite early to see so many &#8211; I saw them in at least 20 spots on my morning walk, some with only 1 of these beetles, some with as many as 8 in a 3 foot radius.  <\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, when it started to rain pretty heavily before I got back to the house, those little guys all stopped showing their luminescence entirely.  Apparently no point wasting their energy when the drops were heavy.  I&#8217;m going to join the citizen science <a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.mos.org\/fireflywatch\/\" target=\"_blank\">Firefly Watch<\/a> again this year.  It&#8217;s fun, easy, and adds to our knowledge about these interesting beetles.  You can join, too!<\/p>\n<p>Clearly it&#8217;s spring and every creature is thinking about love&#8230;or at least about reproduction. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I take essentially the same walk every day &#8211; one mile up the hill &amp; back on my dirt road &#8211; often at the same hour. \u00a0Some may find that boring, I find it fascinating to watch the little changes from day to day&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,60,21],"tags":[35,7,13],"class_list":["post-2658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-bugs-insects","category-reptiles-amphibians","tag-frogs","tag-spring","tag-wood-frogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2658"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2663,"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658\/revisions\/2663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}