{"id":1879,"date":"2025-02-21T07:36:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T14:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/?p=1879"},"modified":"2025-02-21T07:36:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T14:36:32","slug":"couchs-spadefoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/amphibians\/couchs-spadefoot\/","title":{"rendered":"Couch&#8217;s Spadefoot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Each year during the monsoon, these amazing little frogs show up. They&#8217;re often mistaken for poisonous toads due to their superficial similarity and typically green color. It&#8217;s a Couch&#8217;s Spadefoot, a small and harmless species that spends much of its time underground. Its name is literal: to help with the underground lifestyle, it has hard protrusions on each hind leg to help dig in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They also have, unlike most amphibians, cat-eyes (this one has them wide open, however). If you see one, you can ignore it as it&#8217;s not at all dangerous, but still keep your dog from eating it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"850\" src=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Scaphiopus-couchii_4701-Edit-1200x850.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Scaphiopus-couchii_4701-Edit-1200x850.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Scaphiopus-couchii_4701-Edit-752x533.jpg 752w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Scaphiopus-couchii_4701-Edit-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Scaphiopus-couchii_4701-Edit-1536x1089.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Scaphiopus-couchii_4701-Edit-2048x1451.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year during the monsoon, these amazing little frogs show up. They&#8217;re often mistaken for poisonous toads due to their superficial similarity and typically green color. It&#8217;s a Couch&#8217;s Spadefoot, a small and harmless species that spends much of its time underground. Its name is literal: to help with the underground lifestyle, it has hard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1880,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[138,224,442,439,440],"tags":[38,443,444],"class_list":["post-1879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amphibians","category-anura","category-couchii-scaphiopus","category-scaphiopodidae","category-scaphiopus","tag-arizona","tag-couchs-spadefoot","tag-spadefoot-toads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1881,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions\/1881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}