I mean duckweed, of course. Usually the Frog Mitigation Area is 80% covered with duckweed, and the thousand peeper frog tadpoles are chowing down on it.
This year I’m tossing in Romaine lettuce for a supplement.
In the newly dug Upper Pear Pond, the tadpoles measure 3/4”, counting the tail. They are bigger than than the more heavily populated lower pond.
It’s a smaller pond, with fewer, larger tadpoles that the bigger lower Pond.
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