How can I make these frogs stop croaking? I can't get any sleep! They are doing it all night!?
Question:It's been raining here and the rain stands and makes a huge puddle outside my bedroom window and frogs have been croaking LOUD all night for 5 nights and they are driving me and my husband insane & we can't drain the water. We are turning into monsters because lack of sleep, how can we make them go away?? I can't find them at night without having to walk through a foot of dirty cold water, and even if I could find one... what about the rest? HELP PLEASE!
Answers:
You can try this, I heard it helps but have no idea if it's true or not. Spread vinegar around the perimeter of your house. They're supposedly put off by the smell and should leave the area. I think vinegar smells like some kind of frog-eating predator or something, and that's why it scares them off.
You could find a bunch of female frogs in the day time and put them in the pool at night. Then the bull frogs would not have to croak all night trying to lure females into the pool.
Get some rubber snakes and put them around the area. I don't know if that will work, but maybe they will get the hint. Otherwise, get a real snake and let it go.
Smash them.
Buy earplugs. They work great, and they don't hurt the frogs. Remember that frogs eat bugs. I'd rather have frogs than bugs, personally.
Wear earplugs. You can get some 30 decibel reduction earplugs for just a couple of bucks at any drugstore.
I would get some topsoil and/or mulch and fill that puddle in with it. It's not just a frog attraction, you're likely to get mosquitoes next.
You won't be able to get rid of the frogs and their croaking until you get rid of the water puddle.
Is there any way that you could fill the puddle with stones and sand/dirt.
I know how you feel. We went through the same annoyance until we took the tarp off our pool where they were mating and laying their eggs.
Since then relief.croaking ceased !!
Maybe ask the owner if you could change this one thing because you can't sleep at night. They should understand that, and if they don't maybe try to listen to music to fall asleep. If I sleep in a room when someone snores I either use earplugs or music. When I listen to music, I put my ipod on loud enough just not to hear them. That way, if something else is making noise, like your small children, you will most likely hear them. Good Luck!
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