Forestry England says dogs are welcome in the woods, near Swindon, but should be stopped from entering the ponds so the newts ...

Dog walkers are being asked to keep their pets out of ponds in Nightingale Woods to allow protected newts to breed safely.

In New York, only a few drainages along the southern border are home to hellbenders. Red-spotted newts begin life as a small aquatic larva, residing in ponds and beaver flows. By late summer, they ...

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.

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, ...

Other creatures might then arrive, such as leeches, frogs, dragonflies and ducks. For some of this pond life, a temporary home suits their needs. Frogs and newts find temporary ponds a welcome place ...

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 ...

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 ...

They also play a key ecological role by dispersing seeds and spores. In the winter rainy season, thousands of orange-brown California newts cross Bay Area roads, migrating from burrows to mating ponds ...

The water, with plenty of weedy cover looked a suitable home for Ireland’s only newt species, which should by now be migrating to ponds having wintered on land in dark, damp hideaways under logs ...