They are often found associated with Mink Frogs in vegetated water habitats and with Northern Leopard Frogs in land habitats. May. The male's call is a short low-pitched snore which does not carry far. Females produce a globular mass of about 1000 eggs attached to plants about 10 cm below the surface. These egg masses are not seen very often. The tadpoles mature rapidly and transform into frogs during August and early September.
Adults hibernate under the bottom debris and silt of their aquatic habitats.
Pickerel Frogs eat ants, spiders, bugs, beetles, sawfly larvae, moth larva and a variety of other invertebrates.