The recent rains and the omnipresent warmth have been just great for the mosquitoes, and, with the threat of awful mosquito-borne ailments like West Nile and Triple E in the air, to say nothing of the nuisance factor of getting bitten by even "harmless" skeeters, I've been on patrol to remove any possible breeding areas from around the house. One spot I'd missed was the ladder brackets, whose caps had fallen off and so had filled up with liquid. While I was pondering how to remove the culicid nurseries, I noticed that another critter was also taking advantage of the presence of moisture. This young Gray Tree Frog was happily camped out inside the bracket and was half-in, half-out of the water. I doubt the normally arboreal batrachian is thinking about staying put for the winter, but I'll soon have to purge its semi-aquatic temporary shelter and put the caps back on the ladder supports. In the meanwhile, I hope the GTF's diet includes mosquitoes, larvae and adults. Lots of larvae and adults.