These newts spend a significant portion of their lives in hibernation, usually from around October to March of each year. On a rainy night in March, they awaken and trek back to the pond where ...

I spoke to pond professionals about the different rules ... amphibians like salamanders and newts, or reptiles like European terrapins. These laws can be incredibly specific, too.

Small ponds are fantastic for water boatmen, pond skaters and bathing house sparrows. Dragonfly larvae usually prefer bigger ponds but don't always stick to the 'rules'. Likewise, some amphibians, ...

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, ...

During the breeding season, male newts go through a dramatic change. Once in the water of the mating pond, they become bulkier, their tails flatten into fins to swim better, and they develop pads on ...

Smooth newts lay their eggs in ponds in the summer. The female newt will carefully wrap each egg in a leaf of pond weed. They will spend most of the rest of the year in woodland, hedgerows ...