Originally Posted by Quarter Acre
What I don't' understand is..With the thousands of tadpoles (at least 4 varieties and probably 10's of thousands) in my pond every spring...I should be shoveling the emerging hoppers like a 10" snow, but I don't see near as many as I would expect. They are there, just not in numbers that closely represents the numbers of tadpoles. I would think you could see the exodus from space...lol. The fresh hoppers must be forage for many land critters as the tadpoles don't seem to be tasty.

In my pond, whatever swims eats toad tadpoles. I can have an acre pond ringed with a black band of toad tadpoles 2 feet wide around the whole pond, and until they grow legs and hop out of the pond they are constantly getting hammered by fish. Bass, Bluegills, etc., it doesn't matter.

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