Cricket frogs are cold-blooded. This means that they cannot maintain a steady body temperature like birds and mammals. To survive Wisconsin's freezing winters, they hibernate from late November until late March. Their distinctive mating call sounds like steel marbles clicking together. It starts slowly, accelerates, then slows down quickly.
Cricket frogs are sexually mature when one year old.
They breed in late May to late July. A male will mate with any female that approaches him. He grasps her body, stimulating her to release eggs while he releases sperm. The eggs are attached to submergent vegetation in clumps of 10 - 15 and are fertilized outside the body. A single female may lay up to 300 eggs.