58 



from enemies for they are apparently heedless of danger. 

 And dangers await them at everj' turn. Eight thousand 

 eggs seems a vast number for a single frog to lay, and it 

 is; but the enemies of "polly-wogs" are so very numerous 

 that barely enough of them mature to maintain the usual 

 frog population. Fish, turtles, birds and scores of 

 kinds of "water beetles and ferocious larvae take their daily 

 toll from the misuspecting tadpoles. 



LEOPARD FROG 



Hy iMa_v, the hind legs have commenced to sprout and 

 during the next two months the fore legs will develop, 

 and the tail will be absorbed, the eyes and mouth take the 

 shapes of those of tlie adult frogs and in July and August 

 the pools will be swarming with small, brightly-spotted 

 Leopard Frogs. Those that live to become frogs get their 

 revenge upon many of the insects that preved upon their 

 comrades for the food of frogs is largely insectivorous. In 

 the water they devour the larvae of all sorts of insects and 

 on the land they capture hosts of grasshoppers, crickets. 



