Ko KEEE.” The coqui frog has infested large swaths of the Big Island, with more than 10,000 per acre in the worst-hit areas. The frogs’ high-pitched nighttime mating calls have caused ...

Hawaii’s Big Island is overrun with a very tiny—and very loud—frog. Native to Puerto Rico, the coquí frog is about the size of a quarter. It compensates for its diminutive size with its ...

“We have been croaking to our tree frogs for about two weeks now. They respond and it makes it easier to find them,” Robin Mulford, a biologist at Bournemouth Oceanarium on England’s south ...

HILO >> State funding to control small, noisy frogs on the Big Island is drying up as researchers are now resigned to focusing on preventing them from spreading to other Hawaiian islands.