No they will forage all around the garden, presuming you dont use pesticides etc, which I dont think you do? they will have plenty of food. If they breed in your pond then its likely the garden is able to support a population. If there isn't enough food for them all then some will move further afield, and lots of them will move on regardless anyway. They will find the right balance themselves
Hadnt seen any of our froglets for weeks, other than the odd one around the garden, but the hot weather has brought them all back to the pond, counted 35 earlier this aft. All those that left the pond and have survived since will likely be fairly close by still, just because you don't see them doesn't mean they're not there!
When I was in school (c1827) we had tadpoles in the classroom and they were very good at arithmetic. We fed them bits of meat suspended on strings, so the leftovers could be removed easily. We also at different times had silkworms, stick insects, a hamster and a budgie. We had a nature table on which we displayed interesting things we'd found: oak galls, cones and conkers, a bird's nest. Probably against hygiene rules now. Sorry, I thought for a minute I was on the curmudgeon's thread.
My little ones have tadpoles, insects, african land snails and allsorts at school, dont believe everything you hear about kids and schools today. They come home absolutely filthy most days after playing in the mud or going on nature walks. Lots of good schools out there doing all the right things
Good to know. No, I don't use pesticides. But I was sorely tempted to put down some organic slug pellets this spring. Now I have toads and frogs in the garden, I wouldn't go near the pellets. I'm not quite sure why that in itself put me off, but it did.
It reminds me that so much of human motivation is based on personal 'relationship'.
Totally understandable, the thought of poisoning frogs (or poisoning their food source, Im still not convinced of 'wildlife friendly' poisons myself) that you have watched grow up from spawn certainly makes you think twice about it. There is no greater tool for conservation than people forming personal connections with nature I dont think
Tried some escargot and they (well, the big ones) love it. (Beginning to think they will eat anything). I thought feeding them snails would achieve a couple of things - it would reduce my snail population and hopefully give them a taste for them. After all, one of the benefits of having frogs in your garden is that they are supposed to eat slugs and snails! If I start buying them liver they might develop a taste for expensive butcher meat and reject their usual fare. :-)
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