Frogspawn sightings are crucial for wildlife conservation, said the Freshwater Habitats Trust The first early sighting of frogspawn for a national survey was recorded in a garden pond in the Isles of ...

The astonishing life cycle of frogs, from jelly-like bunches of eggs to ribbitting adulthood, is one of the wonderful stories of nature. It’s a tale of tails and how to lose them. The seasonal ...

Conservationists are urging people not to carry out "frogspawn-swapping" this spring because of problems they say it can create for the pond environment. Wildlife-lovers in the UK often donate ...

Gardeners are being warned not to share out frogspawn from ponds because it spreads diseases which are fatal to frogs. The practise of "spawn-swapping" goes back decades and is especially popular with ...

Pond life | No shortage of tomatoes | Mark Spencer | Johnson’s jugs | Letter getter My family suggests that my frogspawn records over the last 15 years are a sign of eccentricity, so I was delighted ...

Data given to BBC Weather by Nature's Calendar, external - a citizen science project by the Woodland Trust - demonstrates that climate change is triggering natural events. Since 2000 they have used ...

RSPCA experts have appealed to children, parents and teachers to resist the temptation to take frog and toad spawn home to watch it grow into adult amphibians. The charity wants people to instead ...

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A GARDENER who tried to sell surplus frogspawn on Internet auction site ebay prompted a police inquiry. The woman, from Gates-head, was tracked down and was this week cautioned by police after she ...

RSPCA experts have appealed to children, parents and teachers to resist the temptation to take frog and toad spawn home to watch it grow into adult amphibians. The charity wants people to instead ...