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This time of year we have lots and lots of inquiries about methods
to get rid of frogs....the noise they make at night can be a bit
disconcerting!

However, frogs are incredibly beneficial to our environment, especially on your property!  They consume an outlandish amount of insects!

Frogs and Toads are suffering from massive shrinkage of their habitats
and if you are lucky enough to have them call your property home, you truely have been blessed.

Keep in mind, out of 10,000 frog or toad eggs, on average, only one makes it to adulthood to the point of reproduction!

It is preferable to leave the frogs alone, but there are some things
that can be done to reduce their numbers:

1) Get rid of food sources. Frog eat insects and insects are
attracted by light. Turn off all outdoor lights and use dark curtains
in front of windows that let light shine outside.

2) Get an outdoor cat............

3) Remove all possible hiding places close to the ground (wood piles,
low growing plants, empty flower pots, etc.

4) Garter snakes!

5) Turtles...........

Good Luck,

The Pond Digger

Look at one of my awesome local frogs that lives in my backyard!  I love to hear my frogs flirting up a storm in my backyard. For more frog photos, visit our Photo Gallery on the main page of our website. We have several more great frog photos and plan on adding many more this season.

We will be staging some tadpole photos as well and posting them in the Photo Gallery by Summer 2007.

Last year spring time I noticed something that looked like a “black beaded necklace” wrapped around one of my lily plants.  It turns out that it was frog eggs and thousands of them!  Well they eventually hatched and then I had thousands of pollywogs!  You are right when you say very few live to adulthood.  Some of them got sucked up through the filter and most of them just disappeared.  

My question is do Koi eat pollywogs?  I can’t figure out where they all went!

YES! Koi will eat the pollywogs. If you intend on keeping some pollywogs thru the change you should at least get a small kiddie pool and fill it with water hyacinth and put you frog eggs in there.

Good Luck this year!

Thank you for the tip! If I'm lucky enough this year to get some pollywogs, I will definately try the kiddie pool!

You're most welcome! Send us pictures of your pollywogs and the frogs too if you have the opportunity. Keep us posted.