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Blanchard's cricket frog

Acris blanchardi Harper, 1947

LCLeast Concernfrogs and toads

The blanchard's cricket frog (Acris blanchardi) is a species in the family Hylidae, order Anura. Recorded adults weigh about 3.8 g. Its IUCN Red List status is Least Concern.

Blanchard's cricket frog (Acris blanchardi)
Photo: Brady Reed · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons

Quick facts about the blanchard's cricket frog

Weight
3.8 gsrc for Weight
Length
up to 3.8 cmsrc for Length
Lifespan
Not recorded
Diet
Invertivoresrc for Diet
Longest recorded lifespan
1.5 years
Main food
arthropodssrc for Main food
Habitat
wetlandsrc for Habitat
Young per litter or clutch
150 – 400src for Young per litter or clutch
Active
By day (diurnal)src for Active
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN)src for Conservation status
Countries on record
Not recorded

What eats the blanchard's cricket frog?

Species recorded in published studies and collections.

Recorded predators of the blanchard's cricket frog

1 on record

  1. Western Ribbonsnake Thamnophis proximus2 sources

Each pair is recorded by at least two independent datasets. A record shows the animal was seen or found to have eaten the other, including scavenged carcasses and young animals; it does not say how often. Compiled by Global Biotic Interactions (CC0 1.0).

References for these records
  • https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/179627285
  • Notes on the diets of seven sympatric snakes in the genera Agkistrodon, Nerodia, Sistrurus, and Thamnophis. 2014. Herpetology Notes 7: 171-177

Where does the blanchard's cricket frog live?

Not recorded

What is the blanchard's cricket frog?

Quoted from WikipediaCC BY-SA 4.0

Blanchard's cricket frog (Acris blanchardi) is a species of frog in the family Hylidae. It is a small, dark colored frog that is threatened or endangered in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Studies have been done to see why the population of the frog is beginning to decrease in those states. Blanchard's cricket frogs are commonly found in wetlands, ponds, and/or near row crop agriculture. The average life span for this frog is about one year, which is why the species is considered to be short-lived. Little is known about the interactions and basic ecology, even though populations are decreasing. Blanchard's cricket frog was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the northern cricket frog.

From the Wikipedia article “Blanchard's cricket frog” (en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Blanchard%27s_cricket_frog&oldid=1380215771), by Wikipedia contributors, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0). This block is kept separate from our own text.

Is the blanchard's cricket frog endangered?

The blanchard's cricket frog is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List: it is not currently at risk of extinction.

  1. LCLeast Concern
  2. NTNear Threatened
  3. VUVulnerable
  4. ENEndangered
  5. CRCritically Endangered
  6. EWExtinct in the Wild
  7. EXExtinct

Category via Wikidata (CC0). Find the full assessment on the IUCN Red List. See all Least Concern species. What the categories mean.

How is the blanchard's cricket frog classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classAmphibia
  4. orderAnura
  5. familyHylidae
  6. genusAcris
  7. SpeciesAcris blanchardi Harper, 1947

Synonyms Acris crepitans blanchardi, Acris crepitans paludicola, Acris gryllus blanchardi, Acris gryllus paludicola, Hyla ocularis blanchardi

Other names and names in other languages (6)
  • ضفدع الجدجد بلانشاردArabic
  • Blanchards GrillenfroschGerman
  • Rana grillo del noresteSpanish
  • rainette grillon de BlanchardFrench
  • ブランチャードコオロギガエルJapanese
  • Rã-grilo-de-BlanchardPortuguese

Catalogue of LifeWikipediaiNaturalistWikidataIUCN Red List

Relatives of the blanchard's cricket frog

Other species in the same genus Acris.

CompareBlanchard's cricket frog vs Southern cricket frogBlanchard's cricket frog vs Northern cricket frog

Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

How big is the blanchard's cricket frog?

An adult blanchard's cricket frog weighs 3.8 g, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Is the blanchard's cricket frog endangered?

The blanchard's cricket frog is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List, meaning it is not currently at risk of extinction.

What does the blanchard's cricket frog eat?

Its recorded main food is arthropods.

What kind of animal is the blanchard's cricket frog?

The blanchard's cricket frog (Acris blanchardi) belongs to the family Hylidae in the order Anura.

What eats the blanchard's cricket frog?

Animals recorded preying on the blanchard's cricket frog include western ribbonsnake. The records are compiled by Global Biotic Interactions from published studies; each pair is reported by at least two datasets.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Blanchard's cricket frog (Acris blanchardi). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/blanchards-cricket-frog

MLA

“Blanchard's cricket frog (Acris blanchardi).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/blanchards-cricket-frog.

BibTeX
@misc{blanchards_cricket_frog_2026,
  title = {Blanchard's cricket frog (Acris blanchardi)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/blanchards-cricket-frog},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}