Considering frogs and toads very much like mosquitos and mosquito larvae as a food source, what most likely happened in Kathy Durrum's situtaion is that by introducing mosquito dunks and killing the larvae they removed the food source for the frogs which caused a large number of them to starve to death. Removing the dunks allowed the mosquito population to proliferate which then also allowed the predators of mosquitos, frogs and toads, to also proliferate. Any time you remove or reduce the amount of an animal from an environment that is a small ecosystem you're doing damage to that entire system, not just the one specific animal in it.

Not only are they harmless - they eat lots of fleas at that size and when get bigger take on the palmetto bugs, slugs, catapillers, snails, mosquitoes etc, etc. They are the bug hunters in the garden. Let them work for you. Need to be organic, are sensitive fellows to chemicals but take over the chems job quite well. And so cute when they all sing in the water garden. They are singing tonight. Breed, Breed, Breed. They can set up a great harmony. Particularily before a rain storm. Weather forcasters too. Handy critters. Your dogs will put them in their mouth once and then no more. Secrete a distasteful ooze for dogs. If they were born in your pond and yard will stay there. We have the Eastern spadefoot toad and the Western Ridgeback which seem to come in drought years and are too noisy for me. At least i think those are their names from my memory. Say nice things to them, they are our amphibian garden friends. They seem to get used to you if you do that. Sandy

They are just there to have their meals. It will be irritating but they don't do any harm to you. I used to do the same, spray chemicals or bug sprays, but one day my daughter thought me something which I forgotten long back. She is studying in Sunnybrook School in Ontario, and they had a class one day about the frogs, tree frogs etc. That day she made me realize that these frogs and toads are important for proper bio balance. Stop hurting them and try simple steps like those mentioned by Walker.

Hello! We installed an inground pool this year and were late getting it opened because almost every day was rainy and the concrete hadn't been poured yet. We finally took off the cover when the concrete had been scheduled so that they could pour around the pool. Anyways, when we took off the cover there were so many frogs and toads. EVERYWHERE. I have been scooping them out every day, but they just keep coming back. When the concrete had finally been poured, only the occasional frog/toad would show up, but I just found eggs everywhere. The pool won't be opened until Monday so it currently looks like a green swamp with leaves everywhere. What I'm wondering is: How do I get the eggs out before the pool company comes and cleans the pool? How will I know if I have gotten them all? I am also concerned that some of the eggs have hatched and there are tadpoles swimming below the green surface of our pool. We have a saltwater pool so we can't raise the chlorine and kill them. I just have no clue what to do and this whole post is all over the place. Thanks.