• CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social
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    7 days ago

    I have to wonder about that part of that story. What kind of trouble are frogs supposed to pose? Are there poisonous frogs in the middle east, or do they damage crops in some way or something?

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      7 days ago

      Frogs burrow and eat a lot of stuff that benefits plants, like pollinators or other pest control critters.

      They will leave your garden barren of life and full of holes and when they pass it will be a vacuum for nature to fill with pests and whatnot.

      Add on that frogs are delicious for bigger things that are even scarier for humans, snakes and crocodiles and things.

      Also a plague of frogs is probably eating another plague of bugs or something which is also damaging the crops.

      Frogs are more of a “pestilence bringer” than a plague unto themselves.