Is it wrong to take frogspawn from ponds?
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It looks like it's smiling.
kittyP
Pluviophile
If you put a pond in your garden (even a sunken washing up bowl) the frogs should come.
If they don't they would probably just die if you put them there artificially so not really worth it.
Having said that my sis and I use to collect spawn and itty bitty cutesy baby froggies from the park and take them home as kids.
They always died but its part of being a kid isn't it?
Agent Sparrow
AGENT TRAITOR; fools 8 year olds
We had tadpoles in my junior school class. There were loads of the little things. Then one Monday morning we looked in the tank and realised there were about half the number as there had been last time we had checked... Very salient lesson about mother nature!They had some tadpoles in my girls' classroom. Alas one of the children put some 'toys' in there for them to play with and the tadpoles died from too much fun
zenie
>^^<
Bang on with the first it, frogs manage to populate just fine!
Yeh I used to take frogs out of my neighbours pond and keep them in mini ponds (buckets with rocks in!!) til they died.
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
That's not frog spawn, that's frogs p0rn!The first of this years frogs were getting busy with the spawning earlier today:
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
nogojones
spelling is overrated
All the spawn have turned into tadpoles in my pond, so maybe a bit late
Have had no luck at all, getting frogs to reside (and spawn) in my allotment pond...yet the chap a few sites down has a bathtub full of tadpoles. I think my pond is too sheltered and a haven for birds. Giving up on frogs and putting all my efforts into making hibernaculums for toads instead. I already have one at the back of my compost and found another toad using a half-full bag of potting mix. Not really fussed since toads will cheerfully munch on slugs and snails (which is why I am keen on having them around).
TopCat
Putin fanboy
It will be interesting to see what shows up by itself.
andysays
Love and solidarity
The general rule of wildlife gardening is that if there's something suitable for it to eat, then appropriate wildlife will soon turn up to eat it...
nogojones
spelling is overrated
I planted some bamboo 15 years back and still not one fucking panda
andysays
Love and solidarity
If it's any consolation, I'm still waiting for the local koalas to discover my eucalyptus tree
StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
Our "wild wood" had a small, excessively wet area. Marked as a "spring / well" on the O.S. maps.
We dug it out, finding a sunken sink and a cobbled area, another trough was fed from the same water collection "thingie"
Next stage was to excavate another pond / wetland area next to the stone sink and let nature take the usual course.
Every year since then we've had frogs / spawn ...
And my old greenhouse was home to an old toad. He lived in a piece of earthenware drainage pipe and there are a couple of old ridge tiles around the garden that get used as toad / frog hides - ditto some piles of rotten logs. One night last autumn, I nearly trod on him, he was on the back stoop !
We dug it out, finding a sunken sink and a cobbled area, another trough was fed from the same water collection "thingie"
Next stage was to excavate another pond / wetland area next to the stone sink and let nature take the usual course.
Every year since then we've had frogs / spawn ...
And my old greenhouse was home to an old toad. He lived in a piece of earthenware drainage pipe and there are a couple of old ridge tiles around the garden that get used as toad / frog hides - ditto some piles of rotten logs. One night last autumn, I nearly trod on him, he was on the back stoop !
TopCat
Putin fanboy
Hehe
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