The Blanchard's Cricket Frogs is characterized by moist skin, a round snout, a dark triangular mark between the eyes, a stripe extending from behind the triangular mark (where it is widest) down the back (where it is narrowest), an irregular, black, lengthwise stripe on the inside of each thigh, and alternating light and dark bars on the upper lip. The body, head, and limbs of this species are gray or brown. The triangular mark between the eyes is dark brown. The stripe down the back may be whitish gray, green, brown, or reddish. The belly is white, and the chin of males may be spotted and yellowish during the breeding season.
Adults normally 15-38 mm (¼-1½ inches) in snout-vent length. The largest Kansas specimen is a female (KU 215686) from Douglas County with a snout-vent length of 33 mm (15⁄16 inches) collected by Kevin R. Toal on 24 May 1990. The maximum length throughout the range is unknown as it has not been determined since A. blanchardi was split from A. crepitans.
Abundant throughout the eastern two-thirds of Kansas along the level muddy or gravel, sparsely vegetated, banks of streams, rivers, and impoundments. Historically, it was more widespread in the western two-thirds of Kansas, though largely confined to stream corridors. The lack of surface water due to decreased runoff (terracing and dams) and aquifer use (irrigation and municipal) has rendered extended stretches of these streams uninhabitable to this frog. Wright (1931) listed specimens from Emporia and Lawrence.
This species is missing from much of its former range in Colorado and Nebraska (Hammerson and Livo 1999; Lynch 1985; Fogell 2010; Ballinger et al. 2010).
Burkett (1969) studied this species in northeastern Kansas. He determined that its activity period is from March to November but noted that a few warm days would cause it to be active during most winter months. During the colder months this creature is generally active only during the day, but as the months become warmer it becomes active day and night. Heinrich and Kaufman (1985) found this frog active on the Konza Prairie from 29 April to 15 October. Dillenbeck (1988) seined up a Blanchard's Cricket Frog from a small stream in Douglas County on 31 January at an air temperature of 4.4°C (40°F). Taggart (1992) found a single example of this frog active by day along Shoal Creek in Cherokee County on 1 January at an air temperature of 8.3°C (47°F); the water was 0.0°C (32°F).
The preferred habitat of this species (Burkett, 1969) is muddy, beach-like edges of small, shallow streams and ponds. He observed that this frog avoided deep water. Irwin (1980) found a single adult of this species near the twilight zone of a cave in Cherokee County in late December. The Blanchard's Cricket Frog evidently wanders great distances from water during both dry and wet weather, and Fitch (1958) stated that many die during these wanderings, keeping populations at an optimal level. Apparently, this amphibian has a preferred air temperature range of 27.8-30.6°C (82-87°F) (Fitch, 1958), although Clarke (1958) found this frog active in Osage County from February to November at air temperatures ranging from 5.6° to 37.8°C (42° to 100°F).
Blanchard's Cricket Frogs congregate to breed from April to July around lakes, ponds, marshes, roadside ditches, rain pools, springs, and streams. Warm temperatures are necessary to stimulate chorusing. The male choruses, attracts a female, and mounts her back, clasping her behind the front limbs with his front legs. The female lays eggs and the male fertilizes them in the water. Each female may lay up to 400 eggs, deposited singly or in small clusters of 2-7 eggs each. Burkett (1969) removed an average of 323 eggs from three female frogs. W. L. Gorman (pers. comm., 1980; Collins, 1993) reported actual egg clutches averaging 170 in six female frogs from Douglas County. The eggs hatch after 3-4 days into tiny, solitary, secretive tadpoles. The tadpoles metamorphose within five to ten weeks. Chorusing does not always indicate that egg-laying is taking or will take place. This frog evidently maintains choruses for other, unknown, reasons. Burkett (1969) speculated that females may lay eggs twice during each spring-summer season, because he found egg-laden females from mid-April to mid-July. Irwin and Collins (1987) reported choruses of Blanchard's Cricket Frogs from 1 May to 5 June at Cheyenne Bottoms in Barton County; after a heavy rain on 23 June, this species resumed chorusing at that site.
After metamorphosing, the young of this species undergo two distinct periods of growth: a juvenile growth period immediately after metamorphosis from July to September (followed by a period of little growth during winter due to low temperatures and a scarcity of food) and a second growth period to adult size from March until the coming breeding season, when the presence of food and temperatures approach an optimum.Hartman (1906) examined the stomachs of seven Kansas specimens of this species and found insects, a spider, and a small crayfish. Jameson (1947) examined the stomach contents of 67 Blanchard's Cricket Frogs from Douglas County and found larvae of water beetles, small spiders, midges, flies, and water-boatmen. Based on the presence of bottom-dwelling aquatic insects found in the stomachs of these frogs, he felt they fed both underwater and on the surface.
Shirer and Fitch (1970) reported that raccoons, striped skunks, and opossums probably prey on Blanchard's Cricket Frogs around ponds. Caldwell (1982) reported that tadpoles of this frog in Kansas exhibited two types of tail coloration. Tadpoles found in ponds have primarily black tail tips; those in lakes and creeks have mostly plain tails. The tadpoles with black tail tips coincide with a high density of predatory dragonfly larvae and , in this situation, the black tail functions to direct attacks of the dragonfly larvae toward the tail and away from the more vulnerable head and body of the tadpole. Because the main predators of tadpoles in lakes and creeks are fishes, which swallow their prey whole, it is more adaptive for the Blanchard's Cricket Frog tadpoles in this habitat to have plain tails, thus making them more difficult for predators to observe.
The Blanchard's Cricket Frog was first reported in Kansas by Cragin (1880). The earliest extant specimen (MCZ 2042) was collected "near Manhattan Kan" by Francis Cragin and received by the MCZ around 1879 (see also Moriarty and Collins, 1995).
Historic populations need to be re-assessed in the western quarter of Kansas.
Based on a captive specimen, Snider and Bowler (1992) reported a maximum longevity for this frog of four years, eleven months, and 25 days.
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Riedle, J. Daren and A. Hynek. 2002. Amphibian and reptile inventory of the Kansas Army Ammunition Plant, Labette County, Kansas. Journal of Kansas Herpetology (2):18-20.
Ellis, Mark R. 2002. Fall 2002 KHS field trip to Washington County. Journal of Kansas Herpetology (2):4-5.
Taggart, Travis W. 2002. Results of the KHS 2002 fall field Trip. Journal of Kansas Herpetology (4):11-13.
Gubanyi, James E. 2002. Osage County herp count I. Journal of Kansas Herpetology (4):15.
Miller, Larry L. 2002. Osage County herp count II. Journal of Kansas Herpetology (4):15.
Miller, Larry L. 2002. Shawnee County herp count. Journal of Kansas Herpetology (4):15.
Miller, Larry L. 2002. Sumner County herp count. Journal of Kansas Herpetology (4):15.
Lehtinen, Richard M. 2002. A historical study of the distribution of Blanchard's Cricket Frog (Acris crepitans blanchardi) in southeastern Michigan. Herpetological Review 33(3):194-197.
Freeman, Craig C. 2003. A natural areas inventory of the Ft. Leavenworth Military Reservation, Leavenworth County, Kansas. II. Open-file Report No. 117. Kansas Biological Survey, Lawrence, Kansas. 199 pp.
Fogell, Daniel D. 2003. A herpetofaunal inventory of Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, Homestead National Monument of America, and Pipestone National Monument within the Heartland Inventory
and Monitoring Network. National Park Service, Washington, D.C.. 59 pp.
Suleiman, G. 2003. Fort Riley herpetofaunal count. Journal of Kansas Herpetology (5):11-12.
Taggart, Travis W. 2003. KHS conducts first systematic road survey. Journal of Kansas Herpetology (6):11-12.
Taggart, Travis W. 2003. Results of the 2003 KHS spring field trip to Wilson County. Journal of Kansas Herpetology (6):2-5.
Miller, Larry L. 2003. Sumner County herp count. Journal of Kansas Herpetology (7):10.
Volkmann, Al. 2003. Cowley County herp count 1. Journal of Kansas Herpetology (7):7.
Gubanyi, James E. 2003. Osage County herp count. Journal of Kansas Herpetology (7):8.
Lokke, John L. and Jill Lokke. 2003. Cowley County herp count 2. Journal of Kansas Herpetology (7):8.
Miller, Larry L. 2003. Indian Creek herp count. Journal of Kansas Herpetology (7):9.
Suleiman, Gibran. 2003. Fort Riley herp count. Journal of Kansas Herpetology (7):9.
Taggart, Travis W. 2003. Results of the KHS 2003 fall field trip. Journal of Kansas Herpetology (8):14-15.
Schmidt, Curtis J. 2004. Natural history and status of the exploited Prairie Rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis) in western Kansas and a herpetofaunal inventory of the Smoky Valley Ranch, Logan County, Kansas. Thesis. Fort Hays State University, Hays, Kansas. 170 pp.
Delisle, Jennifer M. and William H. Busby. 2004. Biological inventory for vertebrates at Fort Larned National Historic Site of the southern plains network. Natural Heritage Inventory, Kansas Biological Survey, Lawrence. 61 pp.
Taggart, Travis W. 2004. Kansas Herpetological Society 2004 spring field trip. Journal of Kansas Herpetology (9):2.
Daniel, James K. 2004. Cherokee County herp count. Journal of Kansas Herpetology (11):10.
Volkmann, Al. 2004. Cowley County herp count. Journal of Kansas Herpetology (11):10.
Gubanyi, James E. 2004. Osage County herp count. Journal of Kansas Herpetology (11):11.
Miller, Larry L. 2004. Sumner County herp count. Journal of Kansas Herpetology (11):11-12.
Gubanyi, James E. 2004. Wilson County herp count. Journal of Kansas Herpetology (11):12.
Lannoo, Michael (Editor). 2005. Amphibian Declines: The Conservation Status of United States Species. University fo California Press, Berkeley. 1115 pp.
Taggart, Travis W. 2005. Results of the KHS 2005 fall field trip [to Crawford County]. Journal of Kansas Herpetology (16):19-21.
Altig, Ronald, Roy W. McDiarmid, Kimberly A. Nichols, and Paul C. Ustach. 2006. Tadpoles of the United States and Canada: A Tutorial and Key. Electronic files accessible at http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/tadpole/. Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Laurel, MD, USA. .
Taggart, Travis W. 2006. Distribution and status of Kansas herpetofauna in need of information. State Wildlife Grant T7. Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, Pratt. vii + 106 pp.
McCallum, Malcolm L., and Stanley E. Trauth. 2006. An evaluation of the subspecies Acris crepitans blanchardi (Anura, Hylidae). Zootaxa (1104):1-21.
Anderson, Lewis R. and Joseph A. Arruda. 2006. Land use and anuran biodiversity in southeast Kansas, USA. Amphibian and Reptile Conservation 4(1):46-59.
Wilgers, Dustin J. and Eva A. Horne. 2006. Effects of different burn regimes on tallgrass prairie herpetofaunal species diversity and community composition in the Flint Hills, Kansas. Journal of Herpetology 40:73-84.
Wilgers, Dustin J., Eva A. Horne, Brett K. Sandercock, and Allan W. Volkmann. 2006. Effects of rangeland management on community dynamics of the herpetofauna of the tallgrass prairie. 62:378-388.
Lehtinen, Richard M. and Allen A. Skinner. 2006. The enigmatic decline of Blanchard's Cricket Frog (Acris crepitans blanchardi): A test of the habitat acidification hypothesis. Copeia 2006(2):159-167.
Taggart, Travis W., Joseph T. Collins, and Curtis J. Schmidt. 2007. Estimates of amphibian, reptile, and turtle mortality if Phostoxin is applied to 10,000 acres of prairie dog burrows in Logan County, Kansas. Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, Pratt. 5 pp.
Hamilton, Amy M. 2008. A taxonomic study of the genus Acris and the
status of Acris crepitans blanchardi (Harper),
Blanchard's Cricket Frog, in southern Ohio and
western West Virginia. Thesis. Marshall Univerity, Huntington, West Virginia. 74 pp.
Steiner, S. L. and Richard M. Lehtinen. 2008. Occurrence of the amphibian pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Blanchard's Cricket Frog (Acris crepitans blanchardi) in the U. S. Midwest. Herpetological Review 39:193-196.
Gamble, Tony, Peter B. Berendzen, H. Bradley Shaffer, David E. Starkey, and Andrew Simons. 2008. Species limits and phylogeography of North American cricket frogs (Acris: Hylidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 48:112-125.
Beauclerc, Kaela B. 2009. Phylogeography and conservation genetics of two endangered amphibians, Blanchard's Cricket Frog (Acris crepitans blanchardi) and the Puerto Rican Crested Toad (Peltophryne lemur). Thesis. Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario.. 213 pp.
Murrow, Daniel G. 2009. KHS 2009 spring field trip. Journal of Kansas Herpetology (29):42769.
Fogell, Daniel D. 2010. A Field Guide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of Nebraska. University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
Ballinger, Royce E., John D. Lynch, and Geoffrey R. Smith. 2010. Amphibians and Reptiles of Nebraska. Rusty Lizard Press, Oro Valley, Arizona. 400 pp.
Collins, Joseph T., Suzanne L. Collins, and Travis W. Taggart. 2010. Amphibians, Reptiles, and Turtles of Kansas. Eagle Mountain Publishing., Provo, Utah. 400 pp.
Murrow, Daniel G. 2010. Kansas Herpetological Society spring field trip. Journal of Kansas Herpetology (33):2-3.
Burdick, Seth L. and David L. Swanson. 2010. Status, distribution and microhabitats of Blanchard''s Cricket Frog Acris blanchardi in South Dakota. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 5(1):9-16.
Beauclerc, Kaela B., Johnson, B., and White, B. N. 2010. Distinctiveness of declining northern populations of Blanchard’s Cricket Frog (Acris blanchardi) justifies recovery efforts. Canadian Journal of Zoology 88:553–566.
Collins, Joseph T., Suzanne L. Collins, and Travis W. Taggart. 2011. Amphibians, Reptiles, and Turtles of the Cimarron National Grassland, Kansas. Second (Revised) Edition. U. S. Forest Service.
McMartin, David C. 2011. U. S. Army 2011 Fort Leavenworth Herpetofaunal Survey: 23 April - 09 May 2011. Privately printed, Leavenworth, Kansas. 33 pp.
Taggart, Travis W. 2011. Kansas Herpetological Society 2011 spring field trip to be held in Chautauqua County. Journal of Kansas Herpetology (37):5-7.
Taggart, Travis W. 2011. Results of the KHS Spring Field Trip to Chautauqua County. Journal of Kansas Herpetology (38):2-4.
Taggart, Travis W. 2011. Results of the Kansas Herpetological Society 2011 Fall Field Trip to Lovewell State Park. Journal of Kansas Herpetology (39):4-5.
McMartin, D. Chris. 2011. Herp Count: Fort Leavenworth Herpetofaunal Survey for 2011. Journal of Kansas Herpetology (39):8-9.
Houck, Mike. 2011. Fort Riley Herpetofaunal Survey for 2011. Journal of Kansas Herpetology (39):9.
Rohweder, Megan R. 2012. Spatial conservation prioritization of Kansas for terrestrial vertebrates. Thesis. Fort Hays State University, Hays, Kansas. 151 pp.
Powell, Robert, Joseph T Collins, and Errol D Hooper Jr. 2012. Key to the Herpetofauna of the Continental United States and Canada: Second Edition, Revised and Updated. Univ Press of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. 152 pp.
Dodd, C. Kenneth. 2013. Frogs of the United States and Canada. John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland. 982 pp.
Bass, Neil. 2013. The Missouri River Fish and Wildlife Mitigation Project: For the river, for you, and for herps. Collinsorum 2(1/2):10-11.
Miller, Larry L. 2013. Wellington Lake Herpetological Survey. Collinsorum 2(1/2):12.
Baldwin, Mary Kate. 2013. “Herps in Havensville” Herp Surveys. Collinsorum 2(3/4):10.
Taggart, Travis W. 2013. KHS 2012 Spring Field Trip to Bourbon County State Lake. Collinsorum 2(3/4):3.
Taggart, Travis W. 2013. KHS 2012 Summer Field Trip to Meade County State Park. Collinsorum 2(3/4):3.
Taggart, Travis W. 2013. KHS 2012 Fall Field Trip to Atchison County State Lake. Collinsorum 2(3/4):4.
Taggart, Travis W. 2013. KHS 2013 Spring Field Trip to Schermerhorn Park, Cherokee County. Collinsorum 2(3/4):4.
Taggart, Travis W. 2013. KHS 2013 Summer Field Trip to Coldwater Lake, Comanche County. Collinsorum 2(3/4):5.
Taggart, Travis W. 2013. KHS 2013 Fall Field Trip to Butler County State Lake. Collinsorum 2(3/4):6.
Langford, Gabriel J. and John Janovy Jr. 2013. Host specificity of North American Rhabdias spp. (Nematoda: Rhabdiasidae): Combining field data and experimental infections with a molecular phylogeny. The Journal of Parasitology 99(2):277- 286.
McMartin, D. Chris. 2014. Fort Leavenworth Heretofaunal Survey for 2013. Collinsorum 3(1):10.
Pisani, George R. and Patricia A. Pisani. 2014. Late season chorusing by Blanchard's Cricket Frogs. Collinsorum 3(1):9.
Taggart, Travis W. 2014. Results of the 2014 KHS Spring Field Trip to Barber County. Collinsorum 3(2-4):11.
Taggart, Travis W. 2014. Results of the 2014 KHS Fall Field Trip to Woodson County. Collinsorum 3(2-4):12.
Houck, Mike. 2015. 2015 Fort Riley Herpetofaunal Count final report. Collinsorum 4(1):10-11.
Bass, Neil. 2015. Herpetological (Frog and Turtle) Inventories along the Missouri River in Kansas. Collinsorum 4(1):5-9.
Taggart, Travis W. 2015. Spring Field Trip to the Greenhorn Limestone of Russell County. Collinsorum 4(3):2.
Taggart, Travis W. 2015. Summer Field Trip In The Harvey County Sandhills. Collinsorum 4(3):3.
Taggart, Travis W. 2015. Fall Field Trip Held In Washington County. Collinsorum 4(3):4.
Watermolen, Dreux J. 2015. Synopsis of chiggers parasitic on North American amphibians. Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society 50(10):161-170.
Pittman, Galen L., Henry S. Fitch, and W. Dean Kettle. 2016. Vertebrate animals on the Fitch Natural History Reservation (1948-2002). Kansas Biological Survey Report Number 188, Lawrence. 48 pp.
Powell, Robert, Roger Conant, and Joseph T. Collins. 2016. Peterson Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston. 494 pp.
Taggart, Travis W. 2016. Results of the KHS Summer field trip to Caney River, Chautauqua County, Kansas. Collinsorum 5(2-3):4-5.
Taggart, Travis W. 2016. Results of the KHS ‘Fall’ field trip to Barber County. Collinsorum 5(2-3):6-7.
Krynak, Katherine L., David J. Burke, and Michael F. Benard. 2016. Landscape and water characteristics correlate with immune defense traits across Blanchard's cricket frog (Acris blanchardi) populations. Biological Conservation 193:153-167.
Snyder, Ariel. 2017. Survey Of Anuran Chytrid (Batrachochytrium
dendrobatidis) in Kansas and the Influence of
Anuran Life History in Occurrence. Thesis. Fort Hays State University, Hays, Kansas. 53 pp.
Taggart, Travis W. and J. Daren Riedle. 2017. A Pocket Guide to
Kansas Amphibians,
Turtles and Lizards. Great Plains Nature Center, Wichita, Kansas. 69 pp.
Crother, Brian I. (editor). 2017. Scientific and Standard English Names of Amphibians and Reptiles of North America North of Mexico, with Comments Regarding Confidence in Our Understanding. Eighth edition. Herpetological Circulars (43):1-102.
Mardis, Dexter R. 2017. Results from three Herpetofaunal tallies at Wichita State University’s Youngmeyer Ranch in Northwestern
Elk County. Collinsorum 6(1):8-10.
Taggart, Travis W. 2017. Results of the 2017 KHS Spring Field Trip to Elk County, Kansas. Collinsorum 6(2-3):6-8.
Houck, Mike. 2018. Herp Count: Fort Riley Military Installation. Collinsorum 7(1):17.
Powell, Robert, Joseph T Collins, and Errol D Hooper Jr. 2019. Key to the Herpetofauna of the Continental United States and Canada. Third Edition. Univ Press of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. 192 pp.
Daniel, Richard E. and Brian S. Edmond. 2020. Atlas of Missouri Amphibians and Reptiles for 2019. Privately printed, Columbia, Missouri. 86 pp.
Riedle, J. Daren. 2020. Revisiting Kansas Herpetological Society field trip and Herp Count data:
Distributional patterns and trend data of Kansas amphibians and reptiles. Collinsorum 9(1):7-16.
Hullinger, Allison, Zackary Cordes, Daren Riedle, and William Stark. 2020. Habitat assessment of the Broad-headed Skink (Plestiodon laticeps)
and the associated squamate community in eastern Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 123(1-2):137-150.
Taggart, Travis W and Sarah L Taggart. 2021. Herp Count: Cherokee County: KHS-2020-02. Collinsorum 9(3):11-12.
Taggart, Travis W and Sarah L Taggart. 2021. Herp Count: Cherokee County: KHS-2020-03. Collinsorum 9(3):12.
Mardis, Dexter R. 2021. Herp Count: Sumner County: KHS-2020-08. Collinsorum 9(3):12-13.
Falcon, Melanie. 2021. Herp Count: McPherson County: KHS-2020-18. Collinsorum 9(3):14.
Riedle, J. Daren, Tamera D. Riedle, Zachary Riedle, and Greya Riedle. 2021. Herp Count: Montgomery County: KHS-2020-23. Collinsorum 9(3):14-15.
Buckardt, Emma M. 2022. Amphibian Occupancy and Diversity on a Post-mined Landscape. Thesis. Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, Kansas. 93 pp.
Dodd, C. Kenneth. 2023. Frogs of the United States and Canada. Second Edition. John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland. 1032 pp.
Russell, Elisabeth. 2023. Habitat associations and fine-scale movements of the Red-spotted Toad (Anaxyrus punctatus) in Kansas and the efficacy of remote telemetry for monitoring small-scale movements. Thesis. Fort Hays State University, Hays, Kansas. 81 pp.
Buckardt, Emma M., Christine C. Rega‑Brodsky, and Andrew D. George. 2023. Post‑mined wetlands provide breeding habitat for amphibians. Wetlands 43(75):1-11.
Wright, Jake. 2024. Herpetofaunal assemblage at a former rock quarry in the Flint Hills of Kansas. Collinsorum 13(1):8-9.