Fun with Frogs
After the big storms a few weeks back, the pooled water in the neighborhood came alive with tadpoles and frog concertos every night. Liesl captured a bunch with the kids and brought them home. After eating all the algae in the bucket our little slimy friends turned cannibalistic. The biggest were then eaten in turn by this nasty monster slug thing that remains unidentified. Two frogs grew to adulthood, well, froghood. After loosing our little animal farm we stopped at the ponds again this week and brought home a new batch, this time with camera in tow:
This is the nasty slug thing – right out of Wrath of Khan. You can kind of see the little feetpincers on his head (top). We dumped him back into the pond from whence he came. Who knows what horrors await our quiet town because we did not kill it when we had the chance…
Katrina and G show their catch. Very fat tadpoles. Joseph got to the point where he could get two in each hand with a single swipe.
The evening sky was something to behold.
The kids enjoy a popsicle on the veranda after a hard evening’s work catching vermin.
Good Times!
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Some of my greatest childhood memories are going to the pollywog ponds & catching frogs. I just don’t like how they pee on you when you hold them.
A neccesary passage of childhood.
We had a swamp in our backyard, too… however, we let the critters stay where they were planted! Didn’t seem necessary to bring them inside… how times change… pc
onkens had a pod pool close by, I loved catching them in plastic cups, and always wondered why they died shortly after…. mine were never that big tho! that slug creeps me out. Keep a look out…it might come back to haunt your frog friends!
The slug-thing ate all the tadpole (tagypollys as Gi-anna called them) and all the frogs. It would rip them apart using its pincers and then devour it quite thoroughly! ~ Joseph
Wondered if “vermin” are anything like “critters”?
how were the b-day festivities?!