The Florida bog frog is a rare species found only in the Florida Panhandle. Eggs deposited on the surface hatch within three days.
Tadpoles live a solitary existence all winter and transform into tiny frogs in the spring or summer.
The two-inch long Florida bog frog was discovered in 1982, when wildlife biologist Paul Moler heard its unfamiliar voice while out at night doing survey work on the pine barrens tree frog. For four years he had worked similarly in the field and had never heard this new sound before. He followed the distinctive voice and found the new frog in six different creeks that same night. The Florida bog frogs' habitat requirements are extremely specific. Florida bog frogs like to sit near lush beds of moss in cool, shallow, non-stagnant seepage streams with an acid level of pH 4.1 to 5.5.