How far do frogs spread?

Archeron

hi all,
I posted a while back asking for ways to help frogs live happily in my garden, and got some great advice, which I have followed and it seems to have been a success.
We have a LOT of frogs now in our back garden (spread around a fairly large wild area and two ponds). We've noticed now though that they seem to be increasing their area quite considerably. We have found frogs on the far side of the road in the carpark, and a number of neighbours have said that they are starting to regularly find frogs bouncing around in their gardens too, some houses would be up to 7/8 houses away in the estate.

Is it possible that all these frogs have all come from our little frogatorium in the back garden and are starting to spread out around the area?

I'm guessing its a good thing to see them breeding like this too.

cheers

jmkennedyie

I have had a visiting frog and I am hundreds of yards away from the nearest ditch or puddles they could be breeding in. I have heard that basically they just need the water for breeding purposes - outside of breeding they could roam well away from water. Sounds like a good news story - congrats!

BargainHunter

Hi Archeron, Have you noticed a reduced number of other insects, like spiders coming into your house, because of the increase in frogs?

My own situation here is that Ive created a lot of frog habitat around the house, and this autumn I have had zero spiders enter the house, compared with 10 or 12 this time last year.

Jim Martin

BargainHunter wrote: »

Hi Archeron, Have you noticed a reduced number of other insects, like spiders coming into your house, because of the increase in frogs?

My own situation here is that I've created a lot of frog habitat around the house, and this autumn I have had zero spiders enter the house, compared with 10 or 12 this time last year.

I've got loads of frogs from my own created ponds (3) but I've noticed no decrease in spiders - in fact, there seems to have been more than ever this year, each day, I chuck 3 or 4 out of the bathroom window!

Grolschevik

I apologise in advance, but whenever I see this thread title my mind leaps straight to this:

"Depends if you're talking terrine or a smooth pate".

Now I've got that out of my system, infract me if you must!

BargainHunter

Jim Martin wrote: »

I've got loads of frogs from my own created ponds (3) but I've noticed no decrease in spiders - in fact, there seems to have been more than ever this year, each day, I chuck 3 or 4 out of the bathroom window!

Interesting! Thanks for that reply.