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Wildlife Ponds
Wildlife Ponds
A pond is an attractive feature in any garden and once you have had a garden pond you wouldn’t want a garden without one
Water is essential to wildlife and many creatures will make use of it:
- Frogs, toads and newts will use even small bodies of water to breed
- Caddis flies, damselflies, dragonflies, mayflies, pond skaters, snails and water beetles breed in water
- Birds such as swallows and house martins will pick off insects from above the water surface and use muddy areas for nest building
- Even grass snakes may be seen hunting in garden ponds
Some wildlife can have more specific needs when it comes to ponds. Different sizes and depths can attract different inhabitants.
More about wildlife ponds
Some dragonflies for example, will breed in quite small ponds, but many species of them will need a pond of more than 50 square metres.
Common frogs and smooth newts will happily make a home in ponds as small as 1 square metre, but toads and great crested newts much prefer larger ponds above 15 square metres.
Frogs will usually spawn among submerged plants, in water that’s around 7–10cm deep, however, newts will lay single eggs on plants submerged much deeper, within 30cm of the surface.
Generally speaking, the bigger the pond the better! But thinking about these different habitats, depths and sizes can help attract different wildlife to whatever kind of pond you’re looking to make.
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