The Northern Cricket Frog (Acris crepitans crepitans) occurs across the Carolina Piedmont and into the lower mountain elevations, even straying into the Upper Coastal Plain. This little frog measures 0.5 to 1.5 inches from snout to rump. The dorsum can vary from bright green to shades of yellow, brown, or gray, but this frog's most discernable field marks are a dark triangle between the eyes and a pair of white tubercles in the subanal region.

Occurring along grassy edges of ponds and roadside ditches, adults are often difficult to find during the hot summer months but reappear the following spring. The Northern Cricket Frog's call, from which its name is taken, resembles the clicking together of small pebbles.

A close relative, the Southern Cricket Frog (Acris gryllus) occurs below the fall line in the Carolinas. This species lacks subanal tubercles and has a narrow black stripe along the back of the thigh. Both species primarily eat small insects and spiders.

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