Habitat Green frogs inhabit permanent bodies of water such as ponds, lakes, deep, permanent marshes, and other wetlands, such as streams and rivers. Habits Green frogs emerge in April, but they do not breed until May through July. It is a single note given once per second four or five times in a row. Males defend territories from other males. Females lay 3,000 to 4,000 eggs in a large mat.
Tadpoles are green with small black dots and sometimes have yellow bellies.
They transform their second year. Green frogs spend their time at the water's edge waiting for prey. Green frogs from central and southern Minnesota usually do not move overland unless there is a rain storm. Those from the north, however, may move overland in the summer in damp, heavily wooded areas with many small wetlands.