Jelly Frogspawn
Frogs lay so many eggs because as they do not look after their young most do not survive to adulthood.
Jelly frogspawn. There s no such thing as too much frogspawn so don t worry if your pond is full of it. Sometimes it can be found full of tadpoles. So what of the specimen that i found. Frogspawn is therefore difficult to miss.
In fact the more the better only around one in 50 eggs laid will survive to adulthood. From the three thousand eggs that one female lays only around five will become adult frogs. Chris ledger message from hackney again having written my last note a few moments ago i ve just seen the report. Birds presumably eat frogs the mucus jelly expands in the birds stomach in contact with water and the bird vomits it up.
Strange slime identified as unfertilised frogspawn. There may be so many clusters in a pond that they merge to look like one jelly mat. The texture of the jelly seemed different to frogspawn however much firmer. A weird jelly like substance found at the rspb ham wall nature reserve in somerset has been identified as unfertilised frogspawn.
The frogspawn that you see floating in ponds is made up of thousands of single eggs each one having a tiny black tadpole embryo surrounded in jelly.