The back may have a irregular green, yellow, orange, or brown stripe. Diet: Insects, including mosquitoes. Overview Overview. Northern Cricket Frog Photo by Todd Pierson. Northern cricket frog is a species of small frog belonging to the family Hylidae, found in the United States and northeastern Mexico. The species is diurnal.

Habitat: The Northern Cricket Frog prefers the edges of ponds and streams with submerged or emergent vegetation. Breeding information: Females lay clusters of 10 to 15 eggs, laying up to 200 eggs on the water surface and attaching them to vegetation. Metamorphosis of tadpoles takes from 1 to 2 months. There is always a dark triangle between the eyes, a series of light and dark bars on the upper jaw, and an irregular black or brown stripe along the inside of each thigh. Cricket frogs prefer the edges of slow-moving, permanent bodies of water. Scientific Name: Acris crepitans. 2007). Northern Cricket Frog (Acris crepitans)Southern Cricket Frog (Acris gryllus)Description: Cricket frogs are small frogs with very long legs, pointed snouts and rough, warty skin.They vary in color, ranging from greenish brown to red. The northern cricket frog's color is quite variable: gray, tan, greenish tan, or brown. Range and Habitat: Northern cricket frogs are most common in the Piedmont and Mountainous regions of the Southeast and are generally replaced by the Southern Cricket Frog (A. gryllus) in the Coastal Plain. In New York, Northern Cricket Frog is a habitat specialist inhabiting only a few wetlands with floating mats of mosses, water lilies, and other aquatic plants giving the appearance of sparsely vegetated mud flats (Gibbs et al. Habitat. The northern cricket frog has been observed to hibernate upland, often at considerable distances from water. The belly is white.

Reproductive success appears to be greatest in eutrophic ponds. Blanchard's Cricket Frog (Acris blanchardi), listed as Endangered in Wisconsin, prefers ponds, lakes, and a variety of habitats along and adjacent to streams and rivers including, marshes, fens, sedge meadows, low prairies, and exposed mud flats.The species tends to breed in quiet water (no or low flow) and may also move from streams and rivers to adjacent wetlands and ponds.

Although found in almost any moist habitat, cricket frogs are most common along edges of permanent ponds, lakes, and slow-moving streams.

Common Name: Eastern Cricket Frog. The northern leopard frog is experiencing threats from habitat loss, disease, non-native species, pollution and climate change that individually and cumulatively have resulted in population declines, local extinctions and disappearance from vast areas of its historical range in the western U.S. and Canada.