did the pond bugs eat the frogspawn?

Question

i've got a very small pond, i got it a few years ago. to get it started i took a jarfull of water from my friends pond, which is alot bigger. my pond now has frogs, plants and a newt, however, i have not seen the frogs for awhile but there was fogspawn, this never hatched. the pond is thick with little red bugs. theres always been a few, but now theres loads, i was wondering if they might have eaten the frogspawn, and are the reason that the frogs left?

Answer 1

Little red bugs sound like mites, which don't eat frog eggs. If the frogs were around they would eat most of the bugs anyway. It might be that the water is not clean enough for the frogs to live in or that fish or snakes ate the tadpoles that hatched out.

Answer 2

Generally they don't other than the Great diving beetle, but if you have any fish in your pond they are likely to eat the spawn, i know for sure that fish do eat the tadpoles.
As soon as the tadpoles turn into frogs they leave the pond and will return to where they were born to spawn themselves. Very few frogs/toads will stay in the pond over late spring / summer.
Professional Gardner for 30 odd yrs.

Answer 3

thats exatly why they left. Your friends pond is probably older and theres certain type of molecules that frogs just cant live with. Im sorry about your pond. its like throwing a fish in a pool.

Answer 4

there's a product available that a guy or woman can placed into ponds or fowl tub etc... so the mosiquito larva won't hatch. yet i'm no longer able to think of of the call of it at 2nd,,,, yet community hardware shops could desire to have this in inventory. stable luck!

Answer 5

yes