Wednesday, March 18, 2009

We are studying the life cycle of a frog!

We went off on a trip to find frogspawn today in Bushy park. It did not take too long before we found a clump of jellied frogspawn floating on top of the water, it was in an offshoot pond of a mainpond. We were all sooooo excited to find it, especially after Eden had said there was no way anything would be living in that disgusting water.

The mass of jellied frogspawn that we took our eggs from.
Holding up the jar of 13 eggs. We noticed one of the egg sacs are damaged so we think already that that one won't survive.
A little distance on we came across another little pond, and were astounded that there were literally thousands of eggs on top of the water, all in various stages of development, some looked just about ready for tadpoles to emerge, they were mostly black with very little egg sac around.
Our eggs arrived home safe and sound.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Oh wow you have lots of potential baby frogs. How long before they grow all their legs etc.?

You can have frog races, each choosing a couple of frogs, identifing them could be a bit difficult though.

Have fun all the same.