Blue frog found

[loverland]

Does anyone know if it's common to find a blue frog on your back porch in Eagan? Sadly, it was dead, as it got caught in our sliding door. But, I looked on the DNR site, and their list of frogs indigenous to MN shows nothing remotely close to blue. Of course, I wasn't smart enough to take a picture of it before I disposed of it.

Now, maybe its color shifted to a bluish after it died? Maybe someone with frog death ( ) experience can answer that.

My hope is it wasn't someone's pet that they let out into the wild. We were just talking about that problem here: viewtopic.php?f=22&t=42170

loverland wrote:

Does anyone know if it's common to find a blue frog on your back porch in Eagan? Sadly, it was dead, as it got caught in our sliding door. But, I looked on the DNR site, and their list of frogs indigenous to MN shows nothing remotely close to blue. Of course, I wasn't smart enough to take a picture of it before I disposed of it.

Now, maybe its color shifted to a bluish after it died? Maybe someone with frog death ( ) experience can answer that.

My hope is it wasn't someone's pet that they let out into the wild. We were just talking about that problem here: viewtopic.php?f=22&t=42170

take it out of your garbage and put in ziplock and freeze it on ice and dnr will recover it. I dont expect you to take it out of your garbage and toss in the refrig freezer, but maybe a cooler with ice or insulated fish box on ice?

[loverland]

Wish I could, but I tossed it into some brush so that my dog wouldn't sniff it out and eat it.

Did it look like this?

http://depositphotos.com/6135990/stock- ... -frog.html

[loverland]

It was carrying a beer, but I saw no sun glasses. Maybe a different, but related species?

Must have been.

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l171/ ... hahaha.gif

When you say blue, do you mean bluish or brilliant blue?

Entirely blue or just a patch or two of blue?

[loverland]

Not a brilliant blue. Darker blue. But, it seemed too big to be a tree frog, and it didn't have the traditional marking of normal MN frogs.

Whites treefrog? Some are brilliant blue. But not from around here. The common green treefrog found in Minnesota also has a blue color phase.