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Took this snap of my Frogspawn today, as you can see its mostly Tadpoles now. Hope theres enough food for them all.
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Great Juno ! You must have a very healthy pond there.
Hi Juno,
The sad reality is that there probably isn't; not by a long way. Species which produce large numbers of young are prone to high mortality rates. In a good year, many will survive to breed themselves, thus offsetting, to a degree, a bad year. Remember: From year to year, only two individuals, from the offspring and parents are required to survive, for the population to remain stable.
Hope this helps.
It's only 8 months old, filled with Water butt water, and a bit of weed from my Dads pond, has lots of water fleas in it. But I really need to purchase more pond Plant, and I really want to see a Dragonfly pay a visit.
Today a Magpie had a bath in it, least it left the T poles alone, and it proves the T poles are not starving or perhaps they would have pulled Mr Magpie in, reminiscent of Jaws. :-)
I can remember when my children were young, I was asked by a neighbour if she could borrow an old large aquarium, in which she transferred some of her pond tadpoles. My children were fascinated as the tadpoles became frogs.