Time for frog eggs

What child would not like to see, touch and maybe hold a bunch of frog eggs in their hands? March and April are good months to go hunt for them.

A long-handled dip net with small mesh will make it easier to retrieve them from the water. Frogs usually lay eggs in shallow, quiet water, often along the shoreline of a small pond. Investigate the pond edge with the net, dipping along the edge among aquatic vegetation or sticks submerged in the water. A cluster of frog eggs may be attached to a stick or resting freely on the bottom.

A gelatinous or jellylike mass of frogspawn may contain 500 or more eggs. Holding the clump of frog eggs in your hands will not harm you or the frog eggs. But always be sure to put the eggs back in the water where you found them. The frog eggs are alive and will turn into tadpoles in a few days. Please do not break up the clump of eggs or play with them, causing them harm.