Common Duckweed (Lemna minor) in frogspawn in my old pond today
There’s no duckweed in my old pond – well, until I noticed some yesterday.
Nothing unusual here you might think. Duckweed colonises pond – it’s not exactly news.
But actually there was something unusual about this, as the picture above shows.
It’s associated with the frogspawn – just a few fronds (I counted about 10 altogether) dotted around in the big mat of spawn, and nowhere else.
Why just there? It certainly wasn’t in that part of the pond a few days ago, before the frogs came, or in any other part of the pond (I know: I’ve been watching out for it like a hawk, or perhaps that should be like a duck).
There was definitely none last year.
Although I’ve no way of proving it, it rather looks as though the frogs may have brought it in.
