Tadpoles

While in Arkansas we picked up some tadpoles. 17 actually. My uncle had a kiddie pool on his back porch. He lives in the country and the frogs thought his pool an excellent place to breed.  We selected a few tadpoles from all stages of development (along with some mosquito larvae) and brought them home in a jar. Luckily we had a small cage that would be perfect for their home.

It was very exciting when the first ones legs popped out!

 

After a while our frogs became thin and hungry. I convinced my young ones that the animals would be better off roaming the front yard then starving in a cage. It was with some tears that we opened up our cage. The frogs were relived and ready to escape. It didn't take long before they were camouflaged among the greenery.

We had these fabulous creatures since Labor Day. I was getting tired of cleaning their space, I thought, wouldn't be it great (big smile!) to let the last few tadpoles go into the wild. We went to the nearest pond and released the last 4 or 5 fellows.

There weren't any tears at this release, but that could be because we are getting butterflies next. Metamorphosis in its many stages!