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    SweetApples
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    Default Tiny tadpoles found( spring peepers?)

    I found another species of tadpoles in a puddle today and I am wondering if they might be spring peepers. They are slightly smaller then mosquito larvae. I can hear the adult spring peepers calling in that area even if I didn't see any.

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    Default Re: Tiny tadpoles found( spring peepers?)

    In case you haven't seen a list, frogs of Vermont: http://www.vtfishandwildlife.com/vtc...FrogPoster.pdf

    I think you can only rule out Fowlers Toads, Bull/Green/Mink Frogs from the time of year. The maps might help a little, but don't take them as gospel. Here's a great site for the vernal pools of nearby Rhode Island, which has many species in common with Vermont. The site has breeding and tadpole info that might help you narrow down an ID.

    Are they all hatched or can you determine what the egg mass looked like?

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    SweetApples
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    Default Re: Tiny tadpoles found( spring peepers?)

    I found egg masses for the larger, medium sized black tadpoles( which I mentioned were newly hatched)...but these tiny ones I only found because I was trying to collect pond water for the other tadpoles I already had. So I did some "net sweeps" and realized I had caught these tiny tadpoles. If they are not spring peepers, they are some other small species.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SweetApples View Post
    If they are not spring peepers, they are some other small species.
    How are you determining they're from a small species? They all start pretty tiny.

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