BS: Frogspawn

Subject: RE: BS: Frogspawn
From: ClaireBear
Date: 02 Feb 09 - 11:45 AM

Word derivation Middle English, so not a racial slur of any sort:

(from dictionary.com)

pol-li-wog   /ˈpɒliˌwɒg/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [pol-ee-wog]

–noun; a tadpole.

Also, pollywog.


Origin:
1400–50; var. of polliwig, earlier polwigge, late ME polwygle. See poll 1, wiggle

Subject: RE: BS: Frogspawn
From: robomatic
Date: 02 Feb 09 - 11:27 AM

I am clearly notup on amphibian related racial epithets. We grew up calling 'em tadpoles, but pollywogs are not unknown here and I've not known this heretofore as crimethink.

Regards to you English shoveling your snow this cold morn. Sun never sets and all that.

Subject: RE: BS: Frogspawn
From: bubblyrat
Date: 02 Feb 09 - 07:59 AM

"Pollywogs" ?? You would not be allowed to say / write that in Great Britain !!(Politically Incorrect -----might upset a cloured person).
Actually, it probably would NOT upset them, but the British Gestapo wouldn't like it !!They hate almost everything,especially nurses who offer to pray for their patients (see other thread).

Subject: RE: BS: Frogspawn
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 01 Feb 09 - 09:06 AM

We haven't got any frogspawn yet but I moved something in the garden a few days ago and a small frog jumped out. Apart from that I haven't seen any adult frogs yet.

This is an interesting article.

Subject: RE: BS: Frogspawn
From: GUEST,Jim Martin
Date: 01 Feb 09 - 07:19 AM

As far as I understand, frogspawn has some kind of natural anti-freeze in it and is therefore OK.

Subject: RE: BS: Frogspawn
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 01 Feb 09 - 05:56 AM

I'd strongly recommend leaving it where it is. If it survives, as is most likely, great... if it doesn't, it's food for some other poor frost starved creature.

I'd love to have frogs in my pond. All I have though is duck weed, daphnea, water snails, arum lilies and water iris.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Frogspawn
From: gnomad
Date: 01 Feb 09 - 05:10 AM

As a kid I retrieved some spawn from a village pond that had a fair bit of ice, though it wasn't frozen solid, and the spawn proved viable. All I had done was stick the spawn in an old hand basin of ditchwater in an unheated room. The youngsters did not survive the DDT treatment of the old upholstered chair that was being restored close by, but they had reached the beginning-to-hop stage by then. Mum still has the chair nearly 50 years later.

I wonder how hard the stuff can be frozen before it is damaged. Maybe it is frost-proof, given that sperm, embryos (& eggs?) are regularly deep-frozen in connection with AI and IVF work.

Subject: RE: BS: Frogspawn
From: katlaughing
Date: 31 Jan 09 - 10:42 PM

I miss the peepers we would hear every spring in New England. One place we rented had a large pond which had a BIG daddy bull frog. I miss his deep, burping croaks, too.

When I was a kid we caught pollywogs and took them home. Puir things never did survive that I remember.

Subject: RE: BS: Frogspawn
From: Bert
Date: 31 Jan 09 - 10:24 PM

Get an aquarium and bring it inside.

Subject: RE: BS: Frogspawn
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 31 Jan 09 - 08:55 PM

I was hearing spring peepers a couple of weeks back when we were on the tale end of a lengthy warm spell. But I haven't heard them since Mother Nature woke up and remembered that it was still January.

Subject: RE: BS: Frogspawn
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Jan 09 - 07:22 PM

Heck, I live in a desert. We don't even have frogs!

Subject: BS: Frogspawn
From: Cats
Date: 31 Jan 09 - 06:54 PM

This week the frogs were making a huge amount of noise in the garden. This morning I noticed we have frogspawn. Snow is forecast for tomorrow and Monday and freezing temperatures tonight so the frogspawn is unlikely to survive. Anyone else got frogspawn this early?