Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for August 01, 2021

Only one way to find out. Start digging.

Or just ask the frog.

I haven’t seen a frog in decades, but I remember seeing them all the time as a kid. At least there’s a few lizards around.

2017. Wiley must be on vacation. Have fun, Wiley!

If you can’t believe a talking pygmy horse, then who can you believe?

Giant frogs? Someone’s been watching Konosuba….

“Just sayin’” doesn’t make it plausible?

Who knew?

We have a colony of green tree frogs in our garden. Started with one or two, then we found a ton of tadpoles and the population exploded. They keep the mozzies down though and other bugs

Wiley’s imprimatur at the bottom of the cartoon says this one was written in 2017. Thought I’d seen it before. Still resonates today, the date notwithstanding.

Sooo…Lucy is the source of QAnon CONspiracy theories?

Gosh! A French joke.

Canaries in coal mines. Frogs at ground level. Song bird counts are going down.

Horse sense. Sometimes y’just can’t deny it.

Maybe they all just croaked…

I seem to remember that frog are green or brown, not pink.

i have plenty of frogs and toads plus lizards . a couple of good snakes. no rodent problems. win !

Recently visited Guam and at night you had to watch your step or you’d step on one. They were everywhere.

For serious, one of the things that used to noticeably diminish the frog population was that so many of them were getting captured and pickled for use in HS biology classes. I don’t think they do that any more.

“Frogs” by Red Skelton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9W2HNm2h2s

I think by now we have probably collectively accepted the fact that saying, “just saying”, means you are suggesting it as a fact.

“Saying ‘just sayin’ doesn’t make it plausible” – are you reading this Tucker & Faux Nooz?

My property is literally covered in frogs. We’re good here, at least. Too good.

At times the premise sounds like an improvement.

Love how, after Lucy suggested the giant frog theory, everybody looked at her, including the pink frog!

I wonder if the frog jumped in the pond to tell his other friends her suggestion, or if it went to warn them that a talking pygmy horse was on to them.

Who says they’re disappearing, I think they get toad away.

I think this was the basic plot of the video game “Blaster Master.” The intro cutscene showed a boy’s pet frog mutating and jumping underground. The boy followed him to find an advanced civilization of mutants ready to conquer the surface.

“Just saying” was the theme in Hagar today too.

Frogs are very important.

I saw a frog in one of our beaver ponds just the other day.

Many frogs where I live along with increasing numbers of fireflies. I plant lots of things for the bees and butterflies but the I don’t see the latter too often.

UK Guardian, 25 July 2021: The insect apocalypse: ’Our world will grind to a halt without them’. According to biologist Dave Goulson, “Insects have declined by 75% in the past 50 years – and the consequences may soon be catastrophic.” Why bring this up here? Because frogs (and a lot of other forms of animal life) eat insects and if there are no insects to eat, they will also disappear, as will the things that depend on frogs, and the things that depend on the things that depend on frogs. In addition to being a major food source, insects also perform many essential functions for other plants and animals. They cycle nutrients, pollinate plants, disperse seeds, maintain soil structure and fertility, control populations of other organisms, get rid of dung and decomposing material.

This strip reminded me of the movie from the book of the same title, “Food of the Gods”.

We hope they have simply turned into “Amphibians formerly known as Frogs”

Lots of comments here about wildlife that no longer exists within their areas. Examples abound world wide. But naysayers still insist that there is no climate crisis, that nothing has really change all that much. Who to believe, the shouters or the silence those that no longer have a voice?

I used to get frogs in my bromeliads years ago… long before summer became 105* and up

Even with laboratory grown frog legs, they aren’t coming back

¡Las ranas reinan!

Had to evict a frog from my kitchen a couple of weeks ago.

We know for a fact there’s an underground cave full of aliens monitoring our civilization’s decline. Why does the frog thing seem so far-fetched after that?

Wiley, Who’s the bigger trouble maker, you or Danae??

Would be a real boom time for French restaurants.

stop using fertilizer and chemicals to kill bugs and they’ll come back just fine. After a Tornado at my place in 2015 I realized how much healthier my yard had become with zero care in the year following while the house was repaired and reconstructed. After 1 starter fertilization coming back I stopped. Best yard ever, shrubs trees etc since then. When your lawn gets healthy it eat the weeds and other stuff, it becomes self sustaining and Im in North Central towards eastern Texas with real extremes (Hot & Cold) in climate. Got lots of Frogs, lizards, birds, insects etc. It’s called an Eco system for a reason.

I live on the edge of small river and wet lands in MI. There are plenty of frog. I hear their mating calls all night.

From past experience, “Just sayin’” means that the person is lying.

Cool in fiction maybe not in fact. Zombie apocalypse cool except if it becomes real.

Didn’t the frogs already try this? I remember seeing a film about it, back in the 70s.

going underground to prepare to take over the world would be bad

A signifcant precursor to this discovery was immortalized in Song a few years back when it was discovered that:

“The Alligators in Lake Apopka Have No Balls”.

My niece is a herpetologist, whose specialty are amphibians. I miss her and my son’s childhood days of imaginary friends and pure optimism. My son’s specialty as a fish biologist are trout and salmon in the Columbia Valley.

I’ve read that my city is one of the testing grounds for frogs in the spring…well there were virtually none this past spring…first they got a deep freeze (26 degrees) in the 3rd week of May, then they got cooked at 90 degrees the following week.

That would still be “something bad happening.”