Frogs in your Garden
Creating a frog pond in your garden
Frog ponds are not a replacement for good waterway management; however, they may help relieve some of the stresses on frog populations. Some species have requirements that mean they are unlikely to use ponds. Some mate and lay eggs on land subject to flooding at a later date—conditions that are not easily created artificially in an urban pond. To promote these unusual frogs, you could create or enhance a boggy spot in the garden that is allowed to flood during wet weather and dry out over summer.
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frog_ponds.pdfFeeding tadpoles and frogs
Tadpoles are usually vegetarians. In the wild, they eat an assortment of aquatic plants. In captivity (or if you need to supplement their food in a pond), you can give them some softly boiled lettuce leaves (or spinach, but not cabbage) that have been allowed to cool or a few shakes of fish flakes.
Frogs are carnivores and only eat live, moving prey. A wide assortment of insects can be fed to frogs, the more varied the better. Don’t give them too many mealworms (these are very high in fat) and try to avoid strange moths (e.g. moths with orange and black bodies) - some of these brightly coloured insects may be poisonous!