No other tadpoles have this trait. The average lifespan of an adult cricket frog is four months. This very short lifespan means that the entire population can turn over in only 16 months. Frogs, along with toads and salamanders, are amphibians. Frog eggs hatch into tadpoles which live in the water.
Tadpoles metamorphose from gilled animals into air-breathing adults that are able to live on land.
Food Habits Blanchard's cricket frogs mostly eat tiny insects including beetles, spiders, midge larvae, water boatmen, springtails, and small slugs and crickets. They feed both day and night and consume large numbers of prey. Prior to 1970, Blanchard's cricket frogs were quite common in southern Wisconsin. Then the population declined rapidly. During the 1980s, biologists and volunteers found no cricket frogs in many of the sites where they existed previously.