How to Get Rid of Frogs
August 25th, 2008
The idea of getting rid of frogs seems to be a controversial subject. Some people claim that frogs are endangered and caution against killing any of them, while others consider them annoying pests that have spiraled out of control in many areas. Overall, frogs are beneficial for the environment because they eat mosquitoes and other undesirable critters. In this way, they can be part of a balanced local ecosystem that enables the possibility of organic farming and gardening.
On the other hand, given the right conditions, certain kinds of frogs can multiply to the point that their numbers can create problems for certain types of humans. For example, south Florida seems to be having problems with the Cuban tree frog, which is not native to the area but has managed to migrate there and is now reportedly overwhelming the native frog population, disrupting the local ecosystem, and annoying residents with their noisy mating calls. Meanwhile, Hawaii has been battling a severe infestation of the coqui frog for the past ten years. Originally from Puerto Rico, this imported species has proliferated so rapidly on the Big Island of Hawaii that they have passed a state law prohibiting people from releasing, transporting, or exporting coqui frogs, which are classified by the state as “injurious wildlife.”
After searching through several different Internet sources, I have identified a significant demand for getting rid of frogs arising from frustrated property owners. Many of them are struggling with large numbers of noisy frogs disrupting their normal sleep patterns and even getting into their houses in some cases. Those who keep dogs in their yard also complain because some dogs foolishly attempt to eat the frogs, which often makes them sick because frogs are capable of releasing a poisonous substance called batrachotoxin when threatened. Others seem to like the frogs and don’t want to get rid of them, and animal-loving groups don’t like to use pesticides for this purpose because they claim that these produce a relatively slow and painful death for their beloved frogs.
Personally, I tend to favor organic and environmentally friendly ways of getting rid of things whenever practicable, but also favor lots of free speech and access to information. Therefore, in the classic Karlonian style I have combed through the Internet sources and brought together many different methods for getting rid of frogs that were reported to have some success. The “organic” status of some methods is debatable because although they involve chemicals, they are food-grade substances that do little environmental damage even though they can effectively kill or repel frogs. Here are the methods that I have found so far:
1. Relocate them. Although probably not practical for a large infestation, it is always possible to capture the frogs with a glass or net and simply move them farther away in the hopes that they will take up residence somewhere else. I have had to do this with a few frogs that managed to get into our house after particularly rainy periods. If you have standing water nearby, some people have advised capturing the tadpoles as well if you can find them.
2. Eliminate favorable habitats. Old wood piles, pots, ferns, shrubs, and other relatively dark, damp places can provide convenient places for frogs to hide and breed, so if it is possible to get rid of these without damaging your property, you might want to do so. If you have pets, loose pet food and water dishes can also attract frogs, so these are additional items to consider removing.
3. Turn off outdoor lights. The idea behind this one is that the lights attract bugs, which in turn attract the frogs because frogs like to eat bugs. If you don’t mind keeping the lights off, this can keep the frogs at a safe distance from your house.
4. Kill all of the bugs. By eliminating all of the insects and other critters around your home, you can drive off the frogs by removing their food sources. There are plenty of pesticides available that can kill bugs, and many of them will kill the frogs also because their skin is a permeable membrane that is especially susceptible to chemicals, even ones that are relatively non-toxic to humans. However, using pesticides will defeat the purpose of organic gardening and may also incur the wrath of environmentalists, pro-animal groups, and whatever gods of nature might exist in your corner of the universe.
5. Bring in natural predators. Interestingly, frogs have a variety of natural enemies that will happily eat them, including snakes, turtles, lizards, crows, owls, hawks, hedgehogs, foxes, raccoons, rats, otters, minks, large fish, and even other frogs. Additionally, many kinds of waterbirds, turtles, snakes, fish, and aquatic insects eat the tadpoles that eventually morph into frogs. Although some people may dislike most of these other animals as much as the frogs, if you’re looking for the “greenest” solution, this is probably it.
6. Use the power of citrus. In the case of Hawaii’s coqui frog problem mentioned above, the Department of Agriculture in that state recently approved the use of citric acid as a method of frog control. Citric acid is found naturally in citrus fruits such as lemons, limes, and oranges, and is also added to many kinds of fruit-flavored drinks to add tartness. Although generally safe for human consumption, a 16% solution of it (equal to about double the strength of lemon juice) has apparently proved very effective in wiping out large frog populations. Similar solutions may be available at chemical supply or hardware stores. If you could manage to procure some and have a reliable sprayer, this might turn into an interesting experiment.
7. Repel them with moth ball chemicals. Some people have had success with various snake repellents or even repellents that are labeled specifically for frogs. The active ingredients in these products are naphthalene or paradichlorobenzene, the same chemicals used in moth balls. They work by emitting a certain odor that repels the frogs and can be deposited around the perimeter of your yard. However, in sufficient concentration these chemicals can leach into nearby water, killing fish and other types of aquatic life.
8. Bleach them out. Several people have reported that regular strength bleach is very effective at killing frogs if sprayed directly on them. Note that some people consider this a relatively inhumane method of dispatching them, however, which could incur the wrath of the same groups mentioned in #4 above.
9. Repel them with salt or vinegar solutions. A less drastic version of the bleach treatment is to spray the affected areas with a salt water or vinegar solution. This acts as a repellent by causing a slight burning sensation on the frogs’ feet but will not do any permanent damage or kill the frogs unless you use very high concentrations.
10. Turn up the caffeine. Back in 2001, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved the use of concentrated caffeine to control infestations of coqui frogs in Hawaii. This came after a U.S. Department of Agriculture study found that a 2 percent solution of caffeine, which is about 125 times more powerful than what is found in an average cola drink, was 100% effective at killing frogs in laboratory tests. It was also effective in wiping out slugs, snails, lizards, and toads. Some groups have opposed this experimental use of caffeine for frog control because its effects on other “nontarget” wildlife and the environment in general are not yet known.
Below the rather extreme levels used in the USDA experiment, I am not sure exactly what strength of caffeine would be required to make an effective frog blaster; perhaps something just a little stronger than a double espresso or Jolt cola would do the trick. Or we could even try an industrial strength version of Karlonian iced tea, where I have been known to steep the tea bags for an unusually long period of time. As with some of the other methods, it is difficult for me to determine whether they would be considered “organic” or not — caffeine is found in nature after all, but we haven’t really tried to use it as a pesticide either.
At any rate, all of these experiments in frog control reinforce what was probably the ultimate takeaway lesson from my years of studying chemistry in college: it’s the dose (as opposed to the notion of a “good” or “bad” drug) that makes the poison!
Helpful Resource: 300 Frogs: A Visual Reference to Frogs and Toads from Around the World
I’m one of the people that annoyed with their noice
Thank you so much for this! I don’t hate the creatures–they just freak me out. And I don’t want them coming in my home or waiting for me whenever I enter or exit my home. I don’t care if they exist–just don’t want them near me or in my view!
I have frog phobia, If i see one, that image stay in my mine for days, and i can not sleep, and if i do, i wake up screaming. I wish those ugly creatures never exist…Thank you for this info.
I am going to try several of these methods, bleach, vinegar and water and also citrus!! I hope it gets rid of EVERY ONE OF THEM!!!
I too wish they didnt exist!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for the information
I live in Minnesota and I have what seems to be millions in my two basement window wells. I want to kill them but anyone know if they will stink. Any ideas how to get them out? I am too deathly afraid of them and I too have found them in my basement. HELP anyone
I agree with Jill. I also live in Minnesota and have found frogs in my window well and also in my basement. Anyone have any suggestions as to how we can remove them from our home. We do not know how they are getting in to our house.
I too have a phobia and have been itching and scarred out of my mind because we live in the desert of Tucson Az. and have lots of frogs who sit at our entry door and garage door every evening and this freaks me out!!!!! Help
Earplugs work well for individuals concerned about frogs croaking at night.
The kill all the bugs suggestion was pretty funny.
Thank you so much! I just heard a very loud thud on my bedroom window and went out to investigate the noise and stuck on my bedroom window was one of those HUGE Cuban frogs! I am terrified of them and will try several of the solutions mentioned. Tonight, it got a dose of pepper spray.
I am from the Caribbean island of Antigua. Over the past three years or so, the cuban tree frogs have migrated here. They are very annoying and fearless. They do not run from people unlike the indigenous frogs and toads that live here. I will be using the moth balls (tip #7) to keep them away from my home. I don’t hate frogs but I just don’t want them anywhere near my home.
I’m also scared of them, especially as they try to get inside the house. I don’t want to kill them (i live next to a stormwater ditch, so I don’t think I could even if I did want to). I just want them to not hang out by my door where they may eventually get in (which would cause screaming, a little crying, and me calling someone to come and get it). That said, I welcome them anywhere else in my yard. I think I’ll try the salt water treatment first and see what happens… then I may have to move to spraying the door area with bleach.
I’m so happy I found this site. Everyone teases me because I am scared of frogs. I’m glad to see others feel the same way. I was begining to think I was the only one.
i, too, was beginning to think i was the only one…
i don’t want them killed. i just want them to go away. frogs where i live are small,jump high… this morning there was one on my bike, i almost didn’t notice because of the size(thought it was a leaf) i went nuts!!!
i swear frogs could kill me by giving me a heart attack..
or brain damage…
lol.
Ok first, Mothballs dont work. I have toads and green tree frogs EVERYWHERE, hundreds of them,I put mothball clusters all over my yard with no effect but the stink. The bleach is highly effective but inhumane, I tested on 1 last night, it died quickly. I may try the salt or vinager solution next but something has to give. They are about to drive us out of our home.
I need to try something major and effective soon. Not only are the frogs, either green tree frogs or cuban tree frogs, keeping me away, they crawl behind some siding by my front door and now water has leaked in damaging the door frame. I don’t want to kill them, but they are out of control. Salt and vinegar or the snake repellent sounds like a good start. I am even thinking of buying some rat snakes and letting them loose. I live near woods.!!! I don’t like snakes either, but I need sleep and can’t afford to keep fixing my door.
I wish they did not exist! I have frog phobia and they totally disturb my life. I love animals but cannot live with the idea there may be a frog on my front yard! I found toads on the flower bed today - will never get near it again! Hope some suggestions to get rid of them I found on this site will work - I’ll try them right away
yes. I will try the salt or the bleach. I am one that doesn’t want frogs to suffer, however I have them around my swimming pool. I want to enjoy the outdoors and the swimming pool and all I hear them is croaking and see big and small frogs everywhere. This is the first year I have had problems with them. Thanks for the suggestions. Will try…Tomorrow
I live next to vacant lots that’s waiting to develop into a community, accept now they are high bush of woods that have a infestation every year of a different rodent. This year it’s the frogs, next will be the snakes. I tried the snake repellent, when the frogs are babies it dont fase them. I will try the bleach spray tomorrow. I walk out of my house and step onto baby frogs, I hate!!!!! them. I hate snakes too but the repellent keep them away. I will try the citric acid also.
I have a little dog…he goes outside in the padio to go to the bathroom and eat.. However I have problems with toads. I have tried moth balls. What eles can I do to get rid of these frogs. I have a gate, mesh on the gate. I am at my ends wits. I am worried that my little dog will die if he gets a frog.
Please advise.
Denise
I have a frog phobia also….I’m so glad i came to this site……I can’t leave my house at night because their on the porch all the time. My family and friends pick at me all the time about them….I can’t help it i dont like them….That’s why i hate when summer comes……..I’m so afraid of them, but im willing to try the bleach and vinegar thing…..I hope it works!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s 230 am I have never been bothered by frogs until tonight . Man they are very loud can’t sleep and I have two fans running full blast ..Tommorrow I am getting a lot of these things to try and run them off,,,I don’t care if they die a bad death…..
thank you so much with this advise on how to get rid of these frogs ! they are all around my neighbor hood, and i don’t really mind them but they can be posionis to my dogs who find it fun to chase them, they almost killed my dog the other day but thankfully we had the medicine to help save her,so i’m trying to find ways to keep them out of my backyard! thank you again.
I am so happy to have found this website. I too am deathly scared of those awful little green things. Have been teased for years about it too. We have had a sudden increase in the tree frog population outside our home. I love gardening, but am now too scared to go outside. They are every where. The spray thing sounds good, but I could never get that close to one to spray it. I am going to try some other ideas mentioned here. I just want them to go away, I don’t care if they die a bad death either.
Someone told me about the salt water treatment last summer because I had a very big problem with frogs being on my front door everyday, and I can say that it really does work. I use a lot of salt with the water treatment and it really works well!! The only problem about the bleach spray is that it makes them jump all over the place, so if you are afraid of frogs don’t spray them with the bleach, because they will start jumping all over the place, this is very scary LOL!
I have a saltwater system in my pool but it does not deter the frogs. I went out tonight and there are literally thousands of eggs floating in my pool as well as several frogs just hanging out having a nice swim! It is DISGUSTING!!!! Obviously the salt water is not working and I do not know what else will work that will be safe for my pool - any help would be appreciated.
little grren frogs try and jump in my car in the morning. i poured sat all on my drive way no water mixture just the real thing this morning i didnot see any of them i dont like them and they give me the willys.
Hey thanks for the info. I also have a ditch that surrounds my house. I call it my moat. I have both green frogs and cuban frogs who like to hang out by the light and crap all over the front door. big poop everynight. leaving the light off is less of an option for a single gal. I have relocated them in the past (i am sure the neighbors loved that). but they are back every year. i don’t want to kill em if i did i would just shoot em with a beebee gun. bleach sounds awful mean. a sack of moth balls doesn’t sound attractive either. i going for the salt water and vinegar combo and spray it on the light and wall and see what happens.
Believe it or not but, I found that if there is a dead frog in the water that has floated there all day, then at night the frogs stay away from that area! I guess they do not want to mate around a dead frog, and the dead frog gives off a rotting oder in the water. And this works where water has set up after a good rain.
Ammonia solution works well for those annoying Cuban tree frogs. Spray ammonia around your house just before the sunsets and that will certainly keep away the Cuban tree frogs. Salt works well too.
I live in florida, so frogs are very common. We recently ran into frog investation because of a neighbor not properly maintaining her pool and property. I am an animal lover and did not want to kill the frogs, but when my son wakes up in the middle of night crying about scary frogs or can’t sleep, well that’s just too much. I have to worry about him first before the frogs! I will be trying some of the more humane ways of dealing with these creatures , hopefully cutting down on some of the noise. Thank you !
I live in Florida in the country i love the look of nature in the mornings the rabbits running in my yard the sand hill cranes all the beautiful birds but i hate those frogs at sun set they are all over i cant use my front door cant use my husbands pick up truck because they hide in between the doors and when you open the doors they jump right in not to long ago i almost had a wreck due to a frog in the car i hate those critters please help!!!!! hopefully some of those solutions will work because I tried snake repellent it didnt work well wish me luck Im going to need it. Thank You:)
About a year and a half ago I was having a problem with frogs in my pool. I invented a product that we now call Critter Skimmer. It is simple and very inexpensive and it works. You just replace the existing skimmer cover with the Critter Skimmer and your done. The Critter Skimmer has a spiral ramp that allows the little friends go up the ramp and back wher they came from to eat bugs another day.
We live in Florida. For some time, our outdoor a/c has produced a ‘fishy’ rotten smell. When it first began, we thought it may be the new ’sticky’ tile that was recently laid in our washroom. We decided to rip all of it out and replace with linoleum. This did not deter the odor. Yesterday we poured bleach all around the a/c and a big frog jumped out dancing all around us and our carport. Today we used the ‘leaf blower’ all around, inside,under the a/c and under in connected hoses. We did notice quite a few leaves blown from the area. We have also had an overwhelming amount of daily rains this year. We do see some of the little green frogs now and then, but they dont seem to cause any damage to anything. We were wondering if anyone else has had this problem with their a/c or if it is possible for the icky smell to accumulate through the a/c system due to frog infestation. It is a very old system. Hopefully, this will help to eliminate the smell when the a/c is in operation because one cannot survive in Florida without a/c.
i love little green frogs!
well!! i am sorry that frogs are such a problem for some of ya!! wow!! i am from Puerto Rico. We have frogs galore!! big ones little once deadly ones. I lived in Florida many years and never once saw a frog problem but i surely missed mine!!! We have coqui frogs that sing all night long and even during the day when it rains. If i dont hear them i cant sleep. they are everywhere and get into everything cause they are the size of a quarter or smaller.
I relocate mine back to theyard when they come in the house.
My grandmother however cannot bend down and relocate them to the yard cause she is 87 yrs old. so she uses Downy fabric softener sheets and rubs the in the areas that she does not want them in. It keeps them away from the front door and windows for weeks at a time!!
Try it!!! it also keep roaches and mices and ants from comming near the doors!! Amazing!!
Good luck!!!
coqui! coqui! coqui-qui-qui-qui!!
I dont want to hurt the little tree frogs I just want them out of my plants so I can bring them in for the winter..I live in Michigan and it is starting to get a bit chilly at night for my house plants but I cant get the frogs to leave so I dont bring them into my house..Can anyone help?..
i have frogs in my front porch but its funny because i have a pool that is salt water and thats it for another 6 blocks that they have a small canal.. i dont wanna hurt them just make them go away.. please give me some info.
Can anyone help me keep frogs out of my window wells, and they get in the basement I’m going crazy and used to think frogs were cute, now I despise the thought of going in the basement as I usually find 6 jumping around. I’ve tried covering the wells and I can hear the things jumping and hitting the cover until they eventually find the air vent. `
I am so glad to see there are others that share in my frog phobia! My fear of frogs is so major that to encounter one makes me feel as though I would have a heart attack or a stroke!!
If someone were to try and put a frog close to me or play in that manner…I would probably do harm to that person and I couldn’t be held accountable for my actions because I would be OUT OF MY RIGHT MIND!! Just moving into a new home and on the first day there (after a rain) there were frogs on the front door, back door, in the driveway and the yard. The fear of them getting in my home is too much!! And it’s raining today which lets me know when I go there….frogs!!! I want them to die! I want them to go away…
the vinegar mite work if you spray it rite on them. but they will be back. Idont like them because they get under my grill cover and crap all over. I am going to try some dilluted ant killer to see if that works.I have dogs also.Let youall know.
they dont like wd40 to much.!!
I hate frogs. When I head out to work they are in the door jams of my car. I’m afraid they will jump in. If one gets on me oh my my my. I now enter through the passenger door climbing over the seat. I was coming out of walmart one night and guess what was sitting on the trunk of my car? Yes super frog wet,green and nasty. I was very upset driving fast hopeing he would fall off. No chance of that, he got closer to my back window and hung on for the thirty minute ride back home. PLEASE HELP!!!
This site is great (and funny)! I have a couple of them frogs around my pool area and they drive my wife and I crazy at night with their mating calls. I don’t really want to kill them and I don’t mind them mating, just want to drive them away from my house!!! I live in South Africa and have looked for a frog repellent in some of our major shops with no success. I think I will try the salt water thing. But they have to go because I won’t mind going the bleach way.
Frogs and all insects give me the willies. Twice in two weeks I have found a frog in my toilet. The first one ended up in my panties while I was using the bathroom. I freaked out and almost had a heart attack.I don’t know how it got there, but from that point on I have been checking to see if there’s a frog in the toilet before I use it. They stick to the side of the toilet or under the rim. How they get in there is a mystery to me. I can’t stand these creatures. They are plastered to every door and window. It’s so annoying. I am so greatful that I found this site. I will be trying some of these things mentioned. I sure hope they work because I am scared to death to use my own toilet. Tonite was the last straw. My husband flushed this one instead of taking it out, now I am paranoid as hell to use the bathroom. That’s why I am on this site searching for solutions.
I am from Puerto Rico and I remembered when my friends used to play with them and didn’t annoyed me at that time… but one night I was driving and one of this nasty, ugly, cold, disgusting and so on criature jump on me, that cold, sticky and horrible sensation lasted in my skin all day long, it was traumatizing for me, since then I cannot control my frog phobia… one day I was taking a shower when I saw one in my bathroom, it was about to jump on me, I start creaming and naked running all around the house and to my front yard where everyone in the neighborhood could see me just naked… and my little kids running after me with a towel trying to cover me… If I am by myself at night and I go out, when I come back I have to make sure someone open the door for me to run inside the house, if there will be no one to do so, I start calling people by phone in advance to come over my house to help me getting in… THIS IS JUST NOT HEALTHY FOR MY NERVES!!!… I feel that they are intruders that keep me away from doing a regular life… I cannot enjoy my life because of them, I love gardening and my gardens are neglected because of this situation… THEY ARE TOO MANY, BUT MY DAUGHTER KILL THEM WITH PURE SALT SPREADED ON THEM AND I ENJOY WHEN I SEE THEM JUMPING LIKE CRAZY & THEN DYING… BURNED!!! SALT REALLY WORKS!!!… TRY IT
I am so pleased to read so many comments from people like me who have a frog phobia. My whole system goes into overdrive - even looking at a picture of one. Recently there was one in our basement and I had such a shock I drove into a pillar there. I have been trying salt - from a distance - but I will try some of the other remedies suggested. Thanks to everyone for your comments and I hope you manage to have peace of mind soon!
I just moved to the country side of Puerto Rico. I have never seen so many weird creatures before. I really don’t mind the frogs in the backyard or any place outside, but in my garage!!??? They poop all over the floor and I really hate it!!! It is completely disgusting. I am using already the moth balls in the garage, because before I even noticed the frogs, I was watching THE SNAKES!!! So they really works for the snakes, I haven’t seen them anymore in my garage but the frogs, they still around. I will try to spray with ammonia or the salt method. I’ll let you know the outcome. Wish me luck!
I am so glad to see I’m not the only one terrified of frogs. I live in Orlando, FL and they are EVERYWHERE during the summer, on the windows front door, etc. Everyone makes fun of me and threaten to throw one on me, I don’t really think they understand that I am truly scared of them. One time there was one in my car that jumped on my stearing wheel, and I truly almost crashed!!! I too have had to call my daughter at night if there’s one by the front door so that she can chase it away and I can run inside! People may laugh, but it’s hard to not want to leave your house at night, just so that you don’t go near a frog!! I feel trapped in my own home at night! I go to school at night 2 times a week, and I am literally speeding to get home before it gets too dark, so that I can get home before they come out! I’m going to try some of the salt and water solution, maybe even sprinkle salt in my car just to help me out!
I use to think they were cute because I only saw them once and awhile but now they are everywhere. My main problem is that their in my letterbox and I can’t get them out. It’s not that I am scared of them but I don’t want to pick them up and have them jumping on me. I tried the vinegar/salt solution but I think they like it cause their not reacting. Is there a certain amount or formula I need to use? Cause I don’t want them dying in there, I just want to repel them away.
I live in South Florida and the poisonous Bufo (cane) toads seem to be proliferating each day. I don’t mind frogs but I have two small dogs and these can kill a small dog if they lick or eat one. I’m not so much for killing them but I’d sure like to find out how to repel them. This article seems to say you have to spray them directly for it to work. But I only see them when it’s raining hard so I would think the rain would wash off anything you spray with. What I want to know is what to do to keep them away.
OMG! I HATE FROGS!!! I am so terrified of them, & they get in my car all the time. I live in FL & have called exterminators to ask opinions on how to get rid of them, but they had no advice. I have looked for frog repellent & found nothing. I have a spray bottle with bleach that I keep on my porch. Anytime I come home & there are frogs on or around my door I spray them. I don’t care how inhumane this is! It is MY HOUSE, NOT THEIR’S & they are not invited to hang out & torment me! Beware, when you spray them with bleach they start jumping like crazy! But it definately kills them! Until I found this site, I had no idea they are harmful to animals. I am now scared for my cats, because they chase anything & everything! I long for the day the stupid little gross things are extinct!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OMG My husband is outside smashing the second one this evening!!!! THat makes three in the last week!!! and they all have beeen sitting on the shutter next to the front door…Tomorrow I’m getting a suppy of bleach and a big squirt gun. It’s on now! We live in Palm Beach County , FL and just bought our home last year. I’ve been dreaming of sitting on my porch and now forget that…I AM TERRIFIED. Hubby just took puppy out to pee and I’m scared he will get some on him. This is Hell…
We recently bought and moved into a house and there is a fountain/rock garden out back. I never noticed all the little frog statues among the plants and flowers in the flower bed until 2 am this morning when we were out looking for these freaking frogs that were keeping us awake. Well, there is a new sheriff in town. We caught two frogs tonight but we can still hear the others as if they are inside the house. From reading this website and other sites, we will probably have to drain the pond that the fountain feeds from which is sad because the fountain was a selling point for the house.
keep trying to release the dog on them, but being that she is a 8 year old black lab with no idea where they are…..makes it funny to watch as she runs around in circles! i have caught a few and threw them into a area across the complex where i dislike a guy!! harmful yet funny!
website is helpful!!!
I have a frog problem around my pool. The frogs come back every night. They sit around the pool and in it, croak really loud, and drive us crazy so we can’t sleep. They even hide in the pipes of a waterfall we have.
We have to relocate a dozen or more every night which is driving us nuts also. Problem is, we can’t always find them all. They sit in low trees among the branches and hide in large bushes right near the house. They blend in so perfectly that they are really hard to see.
Anyone have a solution for getting them out of their hiding places? You can’t spray them or relocate them if you can’t find them. Thanks!
I am beyond terrified of them. It is so “nice” knowing others share my pain and burden. I have literally been confined to my house at times during the summer (this summer and last… never had an issue before this) and once I spent nearly 2 hours in my car one night because a frog was directly above my front door. I was scared to death. It was very late and luckily my across the street neighbor was walking out to his car and I had him come over and move the critter very far away. A few nights later, I was on my back porch chatting on the phone and when I opened my sliding glass door, one JUMPED into my house! I was beyond frantic. My mother tried to find it but had no luck. I didn’t sleep at all that night. The very next day, my mother and my daughter went out the front door and when I went to walk out I saw a frog sitting on the outside of my door knob!!!! I tried to slam the door to keep it outside but he jumped into my house!!! Never found that one either. I assume one of my dogs took care of it for me, but I literally lost sleep for nights about it. I was terrified with every step I took in my own house. Thank goodness we (here in Florida) had a very long and harsh (harsh for us) winter. I was good from November until about mid-April. People make fun of me. They don’t understand. I think they think I am over reacting or making it up. But I am frozen when I see them. I have had close to a nervous break down over the one in my house. I have lost sleep. I am scared of going outside and scared to come home if it is dark outside already. I am going to try a few of these ideas to try and prevent them from coming near me. I understand the benefit they add to our ecosystem, but I just can not live this way. Even a picture of them makes me jittery. I wish people with this undying fear could understand what we go through.
We have a beautiful vegetable garden on each side of our house. The ants (fire ants) were kind of bad around the greens and the cabbages.
After the rain we began to notice an abundance of tiny frogs on our closed-in carport. Well…yesterday I was pulling up in the shade and looked down when I was about to open the door; right under a tomato tree there was a snake (dark brown or black, around 2 1/2 to 3 feet long and about an inch wide toward the middle and he had a small head). I called my husband to warn him. I waited until my husband came out with the hoe. When he got there the snake had headed toward an azaelea bush next to the house and we could not locate it, but when the snake had left a frog emerges; I figured that it was hiding right next to a tomato tree next to the one the snake had just left from. I would not have believed it if I had not seen it.
Today I put moth balls under the house incase the snake had gone there. Tomorrow I will throw some of them around the outside of the house. I don’t want to kill them [the frogs and snakes] just chase them away. I am not afraid of frogs. I just do not need them attracting snakes. We live in an area that has lots of marsh land near and I can deal with the deer and cats but snakes (cotton mouth, water moccasons and rattlers) are a different story.
I hate frogs!!!!! I have a doberman and i’m scared he will get to one. My husband and I have seen a few inside his water pale, i tried sea salt around the fence and it worked for a while but i just went outside to give my dog fresh water and Bam!!! there it was i sprayed it with a hose but it kept coming back :0( I’m gonna try bleach and salt again.
hi,
frogs enter my house from my bathroom.
i hate the sight of them.
they hop around the house and shit all around the place.
my bedroom is stinking.
i’ll try more than one of these methods to get rid of them.
thanx a tonne.
OMG! Just reading the stories of frogs in the house, door jams, toliet, and car is terrorizing. Thank God they don’t get in my house. They used to hang out in the sago palms in my front yard. I got rid of those, but I still have an occassional tree frog that hangs out over the front door. I am going to kill it with bleach. I really don’t give a damn about the inhumanity. They are pest and spiritually demonic.
I’m in N. FL and every morning I dash out the front door then look back to see if a stupid frog is over the door. If so, I get the straight vinegar out of my car and spray it. I used to use wasp spray but too expensive. Either one will make frogs move on immediately and sometimes kill them (kills toads). However, I want to kill those things every time I see one. I will pour plain salt around the front door and driveway to see if that works. If not, bleach everytime I see a frog!!! If I sound obsessed, I am because of those damn frogs and occassional lizards.
*****I did learn how to keep frogs, lizards, big bugs, etc. from getting between the screen and windows of the house. Just take the screen off the window in the winter or anytime (if you’re brave), clean and place clear caulk on the edges of the screen, then put back into place and press against the frame, let caulk dry. You can open your windows with no pest invasions, I promise!!!!!! I can get fresh air in the house without being scared now.
Thanks for the info there are frogs always waiting by my door when I’m entering & exiting my home & neither do I care if they die or not but I will try the greenest way to get rid of the critters first
I am terrified of these ugly things and like many people on here i have now given up looking after my garden cant enjoy it thinking a frog will jump on me i now know i have a phobia tried salt coffee citric acid nothing works.
Please please someone help …..
Last week my silky terrier found a bufo toad in the fenced yard this toad was so small I didn’t see it…in seconds she was foaming at the mouth, seizing and almost died. the vet saved her…beware these toads are dangerous. If any ideas of how to get rid of them please post!
I am tired of frogs climbing glass windows and doors - then leaving
a trail of dried ‘poop’ on the glass, window sill and door sill.
What should I do to try to keep them off the glass ?
Straight undiluted salt ?
Spray vinegar on the floor outside under the window or door?
Something else?
I read about the olive oil - but I don’t think that would be good for windows !
I am tired of the frogs in my toilet, one moring I woke up really early to go pee and I lifted the lid on the toliet barley awake only to my suprise there was a frog in the toilet, terrified me!!! Needless to say that was not the last one my husband had to get rid of, now I not only have frog phobia but toliet phobia as well! I am trying these methods now I cannot stomach frogs coming into my home through the toilets!!!!!
This is the first year we have had to deal with the annoying noise these stupid frogs make. As soon as the sun goes down they start and go right until it comes up. At first it wasn’t too bad, there was maybe one or two….but now they have multiplied and you can hear then in every room of the house. I feel bad thinking i might have to kill them…..i read that this is thier mating call…..and apparently the frogs around here aren’t getting any action. Do they stop once they find a “mate”? Does this go on all summer long? And will they be back come next summer?? Also, we never see the nasty little things!!! They apparently are hiding in the trees…..so if i were too get uber frustrated ( i’m thinking another week of this that will be the case) how do i find them and kill them!!!!!!!??????!!!!!
I LIVE IN ATLANTA GA AND I NEVER REALLY KNOWN FROGS TO BE A PROBLEM HERE BUT I SAW WHAT I THINK WAS A TOAD, IT WAS THE SIZE OF A FIST AND IT WAS THE COLOR OF THE RED DIRT, I SCREAMED SO LOUD, THREE DIFFERENT NEIGHBORS CAME OUT OF THEIR HOUSES, ONE NICE NEIGHBOR CAUGHT IT AND TOOK IT ACROSS THE STREET TO THE SEWER I WAS SO RELIEVED. TWO WEEKS LATER (LAST NIGHT) I SAW A BABY FROG HOPPING AROUND MY PORCH AND I WAS SCREAMING AND WATCHING IT HOP AND TO MY SURPRISE………..THERE GOES THE LARGE REDDISH TOAD/FROG BACK IN MY YARD!!! I HEAR ITS GOOD FOR THE ECOSYSTEM THEY ARE OK AS LONG AS THEY DONT GET IN MY WAY BECAUSE I AM SCARED OF THEM BUT READING THE PREVIOUS POSTS I THINK IM GOING TO HAVE TO SPRAY THEM BECAUSE I DONT WANT THEM TO MULTIPLY BECAUSE FAMILY MEMBERS HAD BEEN SAYING THEY SAW BABY FROGS IN MY YARD BEFORE I SAW THEM FOR MYSELF AND I DONT WANT THEM IN MY BATHROOM OR MY CAR UUGGHH
I AM TERRIFIED OF FROGS. I MOVED TO MY NEW HOUSE 3 WEEKS AGO AND I AM READY TO MOVE OUT AGAIN.THE FROGS ARE ALL OVER THE PLACE EXCEPT INSIDE THE HOUSE THANK GOD OR I’LL DIE. I LIVE IN FL AND THIS SUMMER WE HAVE HAD A LOT OF RAIN I AM HOPING THEY DISSAPEAR IN THE WINTER TIME. MY HUSBAND PUT CLOROX TO 1 OF THEM AND IT STARTED JUMPING ALL OVER THE PLACE, ONE LESS TO DEAL WITH.
I have an irrational fear of them & despise them. They are all over the place where I live in Central FL. I do not leave lights on at night, but they still make their home in my window wells, screen enclosure, pool, eaves, etc.
Their poo is disgusting and they messed up my house siding and rain gutters - and right after I just had my house power washed. I tried cleaning the nasty brown poo off w/hose and some cleaning agents, but it didn’t work.
Has anyone found a product that will clean frog poo off stucco and aluminum rain gutters (without messing up the paint)?