{"id":232837,"date":"2016-03-20T13:00:44","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T13:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/lovelorn-invasive-frogs-threaten-california-house-prices-video\/"},"modified":"2016-03-20T13:00:44","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T13:00:44","slug":"lovelorn-invasive-frogs-threaten-california-house-prices-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/lovelorn-invasive-frogs-threaten-california-house-prices-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovelorn invasive frogs threaten California house prices (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.rt.com\/files\/2016.03\/thumbnail\/56edbd5ac36188fa2c8b457b.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        Tropical frogs have descended on southern California and are tormenting residents with their loud screeching. &#13;<\/p>\n<div readability=\"63.525486561631\">\n<p>The coqui frogs are native to Puerto Rico and make their shrill mating call over and over &#8211; sometimes all through the night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LZUOiZG84c0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The frogs\u2019 cry is so unusual that people have confused it with other annoying noises, so much that neighbors in Beverly Hills called police because they thought they were listening to a car alarm rather than a tiny frog.<\/p>\n<p>The frogs made it as far as Hawaii in the 1980s and spread across the four main islands. They became a noisy pest known for lowering property values. They deterred prospective homeowners concerned about being kept awake at night.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"Studies\">Studies<\/a>\u00a0of house prices in Hawaii found that the presence of the frogs has a <em>\u201csignificant negative impact on property values\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The frogs are the size of a fingernail when they are born, so scientists believe they can easily hide in fruit and plants being imported from Hawaii, <a href=\"http:\/\/abc7.com\/news\/screeching-tropical-frogs-invading-southern-california\/1252178\/\">KABC<\/a>\u00a0reports.<\/p>\n<p>The amphibians need a wet climate to survive, which brings them to plant nurseries and other places with sprinkler systems.<\/p>\n<p>Torrance, Orange County, and San Diego now have established populations of the loud frogs in some of their nurseries.<\/p>\n<p>Not everyone finds the sound annoying, though, and some people enjoy the coqui frog song.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\" readability=\"4.9879518072289\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\" readability=\"4.1566265060241\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">the coqui frogs are out and they sound so cute<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 kelli (@kelafisch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kelafisch\/status\/708890025283325954\">March 13, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rtcode\" readability=\"5.8680555555556\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\" readability=\"5.4166666666667\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I like sitting outside and listening to the frogs chirp. But I really miss the coqui frogs in Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 M\u2661rgayne (@Morgy_Boo_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Morgy_Boo_\/status\/709636177066905600\">March 15, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>This real-life problem is reminiscent of Homer Simpson\u2019s screaming caterpillar.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1uWTDbfZHQo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the future of the 17 species known collectively as <em>\u2018coqui frogs\u2019<\/em> are in danger in their native Caribbean habitat. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.proyectocoqui.org\/\">Proyecto Coqui<\/a>\u00a0and other groups are trying to defend the amphibians from a steep population decline currently affecting their entire class.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/331499-obese-racoon-caught-sunderland\/\">Obese raccoon caught after year of ransacking on the run<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/336349-coqui-frogs-california\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tropical frogs have descended on southern California and are tormenting residents with their loud screeching. &#13; The coqui frogs are native to Puerto Rico and make their shrill mating call over and over &#8211; sometimes all through the night.\u00a0 The frogs\u2019 cry is so unusual that people have confused it with other annoying noises, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":232838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-232837","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}