Finally, a silence

Residents of Manoa can now sleep through the night. =) The funny thing is it took a lot of effort and patience to capture this little buggah.

It took a lot of trying, but the lone Manoa coqui frog has been captured.

The presence of coqui, known for its piercing, loud shrieks, had dismayed residents of Melemele Place, a quiet dead-end road on the East side of Manoa Valley. Neighbors and state Department of Agriculture inspectors went out many nights trying to catch the frog, which is about the size of a quarter.

The problem was, every time residents went looking for it, their flashlights would scare the frog into silence.

“I would hear it and go out there and it would stop, so I would turn off my flashlight and just wait in the dark,” said Laka Preis Carpenter, who lives on Melemele Place and went on several frog hunting missions.

Source here.