Are frogs insects?

Frogs are not insects. Insects belong to the phylum Arthropoda, while frogs are amphibians of the phylum Chordata. Frogs feed on insects, and most of them are agricultural pests. It has been estimated that a frog can prey on 70 pests a day and kill 15000 pests a year.

Which insects do frogs prey on?

Frogs are omnivorous animals, of which plant food accounts for only about 7% of the diet, and animal food accounts for about 93% of the diet. In animal food, the animals swallowed involve four phyla, four classes, ten orders and more than 30 families. Among the 156 predators, insects account for 80%, Lepidoptera is the most, Coleoptera is the second, Hemiptera and Diptera are the second.

Lepidoptera includes rice leaf rollers, rice borer, rice bracts, armyworm, corn borer, cotton bollworm, gray borer, brow mosquito night moth, rice eye butterfly. Coleoptera include: Rice negative mud beetle, rice weevil, beetle, ladybug. Hemiptera includes white-backed planthopper, gray-backed planthopper, rice black bugs, brown-backed planthopper. Diptera include: Rice leafminer, duckweed chironomid, fruit fly, mosquito.