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, but the water was frantically bubbling with life. Several water skaters were skating in the bright sunlight, and not one, but five newts, were cavorting in the pondweed. There was at least one male, with his high raggedy tail crest, and he seemed to be doing

sides, as in ambidextrous) and bios (life), meaning that these wonderful creatures are equally happy on both sides of the water/land divide.Very shortly, pond or no, gardens are more likely to see frogs and toads than ever, because now is the start

'.I dug my mum her first pond 10 years ago, and although several frogs are often found sheltering in the water, and it's home to a gregarious family of smooth newts, we've never seen evidence of any breeding.The pond (now known as the 'deep pond') is too

actually), which presumably climbed back into the water after a dry, under-log hibernation, during that brief sunny spell at the beginning of the month.The seasonal cycling of weather, day length, and temperature, may seem pretty extreme to modern humans

against winter and hard times in the honeybees’ wax comb, and which gives a honeybee colony virtual immortality.]The pupils also knew a lot about climate change — ocean acidification, changes in ocean salinity, water level changes, ice sheet retreat