4A+Coqui+Treefrog+Invasion

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Coqui Tree Frog Environment:

The coqui tree frogs’ live in the Hawaiian Islands in humid weather. They often perch in twigs, in leafs that whorls and folds, leaf axis, and dead leaves hanging from trees. They are most likely found in broad-leaved plants but they are most likely to be in any leaf that can cover them and hold their weight. Older coqui tree frogs usually live in higher leaves (3-9ft) off the ground and the younger frogs live near the ground (under 4ft.) The temperature is in humid and hot weather. This is the environment of the Coqui Tree Frog.

Threats to the Ecosystem of the Coqui tree frog The brown tree snake: ** The brown tree snakes usually live in Australia’s northern coast. There patterns may vary depending on their location. This is a nocturnal snake. These snakes do not have fangs but have poison in their back teeth. Mostly eat birds but also if have to eat Coqui Tree Frogs. It is not native to Hawaiian lands and the best thing to do if seen on Hawaiian land is to kill it right away. These snakes usually live in trees’ though so the chances of the Coqui Tree frog getting eaten are very VERY low. ** Insects: ** INSECTS ARE DYING OUT BECAUSE THE COQUI TREE FROG IS EATING ALL OF THEM ** Coqui tree frogs: ** COQUI TREE FROGS ARE A THREAT BECAUSE THEY OVER POPULATE THE HAWIIAN COAST **

Abotic/Biotic factors Hawaiian Hawk is a large bird on Hawaii and is a carnivore. The Hawaiian Hawk lives on the forest floor (known as the canopy.)Its food diet is rodents, small birds, frogs, spiders, large insects, and caterpillars. Its appearance is known to look like solid brown color but also can be white with dark streaks. Hawaiian Hawks are endangered species and native to Hawaiian soil.


 * Pueo is the Hawaiian owl of Hawaii. They are carnivores and eat rodents, insects, and small birds. They live near the forest floor and grasslands. Pueo hunt during early morning and evenings than at night time like most owls. They grow feathers on their legs and feet. Their faces are round with black mask like a raccoon. There nest can be found on the ground floor. These birds are endangered but only on the island Oahu. Plus they are native to Hawaiian lands. **


 * Barn owls are carnivores and they eat the same thing that the peuo eats;rodents, insects, and small birds. Its face is white heart-shaped like that distinguishes it from the native Pueo. It hunts mostly at night and they nest in tree cavities. These birds are not endangered and not native to hawai’i. **


 * ‘Ope‘ape‘a ** is a Hawaiian Hoary Bat, insectivore. They live in trees and rock outcroppings. Their diet is beetles, insects, moths, termites, and mosquitos. The ope’ape’a is a grayish-brown with white-tiped fur. The fur looks like hoar-frost hence the name. they forage for food at dawn and dusk, They sleep upside down. This bat is endangered to Hawaii and is native to Hawaii.


 * Pupu kuahiwi ** is a snail is the size length is less than an inch. Their forest habitat is branches, bark and leaves, forest floor, and understory parts. The food they eat is algae and fungi. People once thought that these snails sang. They came in many colors depending on which valley is their home. They are endangered and yes they are native to Hawaii.


 * Rats and mice ** they are about 2’’ to 7’’ in body length and they live in the forest floor, gulches, and grasslands. Food they eat are nuts, berries, fruit, seeds, birds, and eggs. There are 3 different kinds of rats black rats, Norway rats, and Polynesian and one kind of mouse. Rats also eat snail and eggs of native birds, mice eat seeds. They are definitely not endangered and not native to hawai’i.


 * ‘Akohekohe ** is a hunny bird and lives in the sub canopy and canopy habitat. They are about 7’’ long. They usually eat nectar from ‘ohi’a blossoms and other flowers, and some insects. It has white or golden feathers on its forehead. They are native and endangered.
 * ‘Oma‘o ** is a Hawaiian bird and it is 7’’ long. This Hawaiian bird lives in the canopy, sub-canopy, and the understory parts. Their diets are fruits, berries, seeds, and insects. Are they endangered to Hawaiian land no…. although they are native.


 * Axis deer is a deer that usually weighs in at about 95-225 pounds and at the height of their hoofs to the shoulder is between 30’’-36’’ tall. They of course live on the forest floor. Crops, grasses, and shrubs is their mane diet. In 1867 they were one of the eight brought to Hawaii as a gift. With this they are not native to Hawai’i and they are not endangered. **


 * Pua‘a ** are wild pigs of Hawaii, the adults weigh from 150-over 400pounds!! These animals live on the forest floor. Favorite foods of their diet are earthworms and hapu’u fern. Although they will also willingly eat roots, stems, leaves or shrubs, grasses, snails, insects, ground nesting birds, and dig up turtle eggs on the Big Island. Pua’a was brought there by early Poynesians and Europeans as a source of food but now they have gotten over populated and are destroying native forests.


 * Mongooses’ total length is 18’’-26’’ long. They live on the forest floor and eat birds, eggs, insects, rodents, fruits, berries. Mongooses’ were brought to hawai’i from India to control the rat population although they are on different times (mongooses eat during day and rats eat at night.) **


 * Feral dogs’ live on the forest floor and grasslands; they eat game bird, nene, and rodents. They are not endangered and not native. **


 * Pulelehua ** is a butterfly; the wingspan is about 2.5 inches long. This butterfly lives in the caopy area and the understory and eats sap oozing from trees. They are most active on sunny days. These are both endangered and native.
 * Predatory ceterpillar ** is less then one inch long and live on the forest floor. They eat flies and other insects. They have not yet been added to the endangered list but should be there. They are native to Hawaii.


 * Hapu‘u ** is a Hawaiian Tree fern and is found in the understory in the rain forests area. Usually used for nestlings. Ferns produce spores instead of seeds to reproduce. They produce no flowers, fruits, or seeds. Not endangered or native.


 * ‘Ohi‘a ****(tree) **
 * Forest habitat ****: canopy **
 * Found in dry, mesic, and wet forests **
 * Plant use ****: food for birds, nesting sites, timber, medicine **
 * Interesting facts ****: Different trees have different colors of flowers: red, yellow **
 * Or salmon. The flowers secrete large amounts of nectar that birds and insects **
 * Eat. **
 * Native to Hawai‘i ****: Yes **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">Forest habitat ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">: understory **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">Found in dry and mesic forests **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">Plant use ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">: Hawaiian spears, food for birds and insects Interesting facts: It has **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">Golden yellow bean-Like flowers, which produce very long green seed pods. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">Young twigs are silky and hairy. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">Native to Hawai‘i ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">: Yes **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">Naio ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">(tree) **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">Forest habitat ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">: understory **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">Found in dry, mesic, and rain forests **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">Plant use ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">: birds depend on it for food **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">Interesting fact ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">: The wood smells somewhat like sandalwood. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">Native to Hawai‘i ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">: Yes. **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">ŸOhelo la‘au ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">(shrub) **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">Forest Habitat ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">: understory **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">found in mesic and rain forests **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">Plant use ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">: food for birds and animals, as medicine and to make jelly. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">Interesting facts ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">Ohelo has small greenish flowers and large bright sour **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">cranberry-Iike fruits. It is related to the blue- berry and cranberry shrubs. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">Native to Hawai‘i ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">: Yes **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">Koa ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">(tree) **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">Forest Habitat ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">: sub canopy, canopy **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">found in dry, mesic and wet forest **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">Plant use ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">: furniture, lumber for building, food for birds, medicine, dye. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">Interesting facts ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">: Birds and butterflies depend on this tree for food. The **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">leaves of a young tree look very different from that of a mature tree. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">Native to Hawai‘i ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">: Yes **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">Strawberry Guava ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">(bush, small bushy tree) **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">Forest habitat ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">: understory, found in dry, mesic, and rain forests **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">Plant Use ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">: Food for humans, birds, animals, dye, medicine, jelly, juice **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">Interesting facts ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">: Introduced in 1825 for the edible fruit. **

Conservation plan Our conversation plan is that we should breed more Brown tree snakes. Then release them into the Hawaiian forests to eat the coqui tree frogs. That would soon balance out the population of the coqui tree frog and the brown tree snakes. It would also allow the other animals to start to recover from the coqui tree frog invasion. Or we have another simple reason is taking about 4 male and females and killing the rest after that is done let the Coqui tree frogs reproduce and then watch to keep a minimum. Those are our conservation plan on keeping the coqui tree frog population controlled.

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