| She knew exactly when the frogspawn would appear, and could tell when it was about to rain. |
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| I wandered out the back as usual this morning, and see that there's a dollop of frogspawn in the pond. |
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| We once collected a tank full of frogspawn from the stale stream that followed the line. |
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| There's no frogspawn in the wildlife pond yet, but it won't be long before there is. |
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| It's interesting as we had frogspawn by the 16th last year, but I suspect it will be later this year. |
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| There is a lot of frogspawn about and we would ask people not move it to other ponds because of a risk of disease. |
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| In the spring, the children used to collect frogspawn and take it home in jam jars. |
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| One of our amphibian friends has left a batch of golden yellow frogspawn in our pond overnight! |
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| Fish eyes, frogspawn or eyeball pudding – synonyms for Britain's most hated school pudding, tapioca. |
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| The Woodland Trust, an environmental charity, said signs of a warm, dry spring were all around with frogspawn being reported in Scotland weeks earlier than normal. |
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| Now the BBC's Springwatch survey reveals where the first bumblebees, seven-spot ladybirds, peacock butterflies, swifts, frogspawn and hawthorn have been spotted. |
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| I remember one of the first things that triggered a print was seeing a still pond with a cluster of newly-laid frogspawn. |
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| Of birds and flowers we saw none but as proof of the change of season there was frogspawn, though slugs of spring snow persisting in swallow holes. |
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| With the WatchFrog system, frogspawn in pure water presents a green fluorescence. |
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| I'll be lucky to get frogspawn, but you never know what's out there. |
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| The science writer Jules Howard tweeted a funny story about how he returned home from a short break to find someone had deposited 10-day-old frogspawn in his pond. |
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| Two decades ago, primary school science lessons revolved around sticky buds and frogspawn. |
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| Few perhaps could distinguish a twig or a frond from a jam jar of frogspawn. |
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| Mr Paffard admitted that with hindsight the company might have expected new products such as chocolate frogspawn not to be such great sellers. |
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| The focus is on six key signs, sightings of bumblebee, seven-spot ladybird, frogspawn, peacock butterfly, hawthorn and swift. |
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| But the community council says the pond is now overrun with ducks, who have munched through all the other wildlife, including frogspawn. |
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| The spawn of the two species also differs in that frogspawn is laid in clumps and toadspawn is laid in long strings. |
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| The species are bumblebee, frogspawn, seven-spot ladybird, peacock butterfly, hawthorn flowering and swift arriving. |
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| Frogspawn will be about at Christmas and early spring flowers will come out in what you might think is winter. |
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