RAUK - Archived Forum - Uninvited frog

It may have, but it's unlikely that eating tadpoles will have greatly increased it's size.

It may just be an abnormally large frog, what kind is it?

Like that snail on the advert, the one where the woman scrapes the car, and spills red wine on the sofa...

Stupid girl...

thanks for the reply.  I will encourage the FROG to seek sustance elswhere and restock the pond, then put a net over the top in an endeavour to safeguard the wee ones.

Here is a photo of the univited frog in our New Zealand garden.

I'm not sure what kind of frog that is, but i'm sure that netting will keep it out.

Last year in an effort to protect her strawberrys my mum put netting over them, and managed to unwillingly catch Common Toads and a few unsuspecting Sparrows...

Yeh, they'd get caught on the blades and cut up between the blades and the base plate (the part that the grass is trapped between so the blades can cut it).

I think the newts would be less agile with their tails, but that dosen't matter in my case - either they're picked up and released in the garden, or they're unfortunate

The froglets don't seem to be jumping out of the way on my lawn, even when they're picked up to be relocated to a nice part in the garden, but i dont cut the grass, my dad does...

The pond light looks O.K., but im not too sure about it attracting airborne insects, and its only the small froglets that will eat in the water, adults and juveniles only eat on land, but i don't know about the newts and efts - i recon they'll eat in the water as they spend much of their time in there.

Hope this helps

Dan

Lalchitri I don't think you need worry too much about mower victims. I've got a large garden with lots of lawn and also lots of frogs and some toads. I've never run over any but that's probably because I think you'll find they are rarely sitting out on the open lawn but rather lurking under or in vegetation.

With regards to pond lights I tend to go with natural light. I wouldn't want my pond lit at night because some creatures work by night.

Well, that was the problem, regular mowing(or lack of it)...

Before we went on holiday i put miricale grow/evergreen stuff on it about a week before going away, so when we got back off holiday 2 weeks later it was raining, as it always is in cumbria. 

3 and a bit weeks later, still no let up, so after nearly 2 months in the middle of summer with regular rain and sunshne (sun only when we were away, and for half hour-ish intervals so much as not to dry the lawn sufficient enough for mowing, but enough to encourage growth...) it was nearly 40cm tall.

My dad had to strim about 400m2 of lawn, the mow it haha. The lawn had been a safe haven for the growing frog/toadlets for almost 2 months, but is now kept at a reasonable length, as to try to keep them off it.

With regards to what caleb said about lawn length, i think that short grass would discourage them, as it dosen't provide as much shelter or protection from predators or harsh weather, like we normally have up here, as some bushes or the pond's surrounding vegetation.

Dan