ASPECTS OF THE FEEDING ECOLOGY OF THE LITTLE GRASS FROG, PSEUDACRIS-OCULARIS (ANURA, HYLIDAE)

We report on the foods of the little grass frog, Pseudacris ocularis, from Georgia. Fifty specimens were collected from two isolated wetland s located in Evans and Grady counties, Georgia, during late spring and summer 1993. Analysis of stomach contents determined that the most ab undant food items were small arthropods associated with leaf litter an d soil. Almost 50% of the food items were collembolans, followed by hy menopterans (17%), acarines (9%), homopterans (8%), and coleopterans ( 8%). We compared foods of adult males with those morphosed juveniles c ollected at the same time County site. Juvenile frogs ate more individ ual items and a greater diversity of prey species than did adult males . This difference could be due to adult Pseudacris selecting larger, m ore profitable prey than juveniles select. Lower feeding activity exhi bited by breeding males might also be a contributing factor.