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I found these various types of amphibians eggs in a small puddle in the woods today in Stroudsburg PA. It was one of those temporary pools of water that dries up by the end of summer and, for some reason, is lined with orange mud! I never understood the orange mud thing. Anyway, there seemed to be 2 types of eggs in here, some translucent and some opaque. Spotted salamanders and maybe wood frogs? I’m also not certain what types of tadpoles these are. They were almost mosquito sized! If anyone can help me make a positive ID on these I’d greatly appreciate it. Sorry I couldn’t get a better photograph!

probably wood frog eggs and tads and the white blobs are spotted salamander eggs......let them be...we cannot recreate the cold ,clean water conditions they need.....they all bred back in March....the rains in the last full moons at the end of the month......not much rain in April so far...and those 80 degree days sucked ...bigtime...

good luck......!!!

....(next year go out the end of March and look at the frogs breeding....(and spotteds..)...I seem to miss them every year.....

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Thanks and I'm not a collector. I just like to take pics! This was a very chilly Spring but I did see some Spotteds on the roads at night!

I always see those "white blobs" accompanying pickerel frog eggs and other species in abundance, seemingly laid on the same night. I thought they were excess mucuous left by unfertilized frogs or egg masses in a very early stage of development. Hard to believe spotted salamanders are common enough around here to leave thousands of them.
Len

you'd be surprised how many crawl out of the woods at night...
I hardly see any, yet there are lots of blobs around the place a friend too me....we always pick the wrong night....really...""they were all over Wednesday""...is last year's line.....timing and rain and full moon....this year I didn't get out at all ....sad....

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