In the winter rainy season, thousands of orange-brown California newts cross Bay Area roads, migrating from burrows to mating ponds. Like banana slugs, newts need moisture to survive — especially ...

Islanders have been asked to become citizen scientists in a bid to help Jersey's newts, frogs and toads. Jersey Biodiversity Centre (JBC) wants people to record wildlife they see in their ponds ...

Although it is aquatic, it sometimes leaves the water and flies off to settle in a new pond. Like the adults, great diving beetle larvae are voracious predators. They can attack other aquatic insects, ...

Each year females lay their eggs in nests made out of plants and leaves. Smooth newts lay their eggs in ponds in the summer. The female newt will carefully wrap each egg in a leaf of pond weed.