OMNIVORE TADPOLES EATING MOSQUITO LARVAE MALARIA INSECTS

[fishrcoolturtles2]

I was at a minigolf course and they had drained mostly all the water from the pond except for maybe 500 gal in a small corner and I notived tadpoles five inches long not frogs tadpoles they hadn't devoloped legs or arms yet I know becauase I stayed their 30 or more minutes watching them I have also had a few frogs of my own I released back into the wild I raised from tadpoles.

[virginiaomalley]

To control mosquito larvae, just drop in some mosquito dunks that you can get at Home Depot - they don't kill the tadpoles, I called. Also, tadpoles will eat each other if there are too many of them and not enough food.

[GREENPOWERSCIENCE]

@virginiaomalley We have other beneficial bugs, it stunts most insect juvenile development. If it is a non-organic dwelling they are good.

[virginiaomalley]

I have rain barrels to collect the rain, and then one day I saw these little tadpoles. I kept looking out for mosquito larvae and never found any, and then one day, there they were. I scooped out as many as I could and the ones that were left, I guess the tadpoles ate. I have also been feeding my tadpoles, cooked spinach, which I then freeze, and break off bits at a time and they just love it. They also eat dried millipedes that I drop in.

[CONTHEWON17]

Do you have to dry the mosquito larvae or can you leave it for the tadpole to eat?

[mechwarriorlover]

the water is dirty

[Melaine621]

Thank You for posting this. My grandaughter caught a tadpole when it was about 1/4" long it is now about the size of the ones in your video. It didn't have much algae to eat in the little aquarium (4x6x6") in my garden window so I put some from a little pool of water into the little tank. I found I also put some mosquito larvae in with it. I've been trying to get them out but now I won't since it can be food for the lil tadpole :) thanks again.

[Melaine621]

Thank You for posting this. My grandaughter caught a tadpole when it was about 1/4" long it is now about the size of the ones in your video. It didn't have much algae to eat in the little auarium (4x6x6") in my garden window so I put some from a little pool of water into the little tank. I found I also put some mosquito larvae in with it. I've been trying to get them out but now I won't since it can be food for the lil tadpole :) thanks again.

[jimjamjoe2141]

black ants have wings?! im learning crap i dont normally learn in schooL! awesome!

[brepitmagari]

I also have a tadpoles, yesterday, i took the tadpoles in the stream, and black and the tail of the limbs above and below

[NOCNOTCAUGHT]

The tadpoles here eat the mosquito larvae as fast as they can. I would guess they eat way more mosquitoes as tadpoles than they ever do as adult frogs. The frogs here in Southwest Florida are a type of Cuban Tree Frog. Their populations soar as the rainy season gets going. At the end of summer as the swamps begin to dry up, tadpoles and Gambusia are concentrated into small pools by the thousands. All kinds of wading birds and even raccoons will gather to feast as the isolated pools evaporate.

[social3ngin33rin]

The circle of life :)

[33noa33]

Its better to have few toads on backyard

than vermin and mozzies that transmit

deseases that can make you very sick.

vermin and bugs are food for toad

[Howtomakestuff1]

tadpoles eat mosquito larvae? i didnt know that until this and when i got a pet tadpole (toad) it freaking ate a mosquito larvae

[deathtouch100]

tadpoles are not omnivores, they don't eat vegetation but microscopic larve such as the mosquirto larve, omnivore means meat(insects or vegetartion(plants) and they truly don't eat plant material

[gillstar34]

u know that sometimes they even eat plants

[DoomMaster307]

So tadpoles eat mosquito larvae?

AWESOME!

I have tons of mosquito larvas in my backyard.

I have found a new source of food for my tadpoles !!!!!!

I SHALL RAISE AN ARMY OF T4DP0L3Z

and RULE THE EARTH!

whoo hoo!!!!

[Critique808]

@DoomMaster307

Yes, but you will have lots of unwanted toads in your yard. I have toads in my yard, and I have to be careful not to step on them.

[Koreanlion7]

lol, the tadpoles r cool. i would have stuck with buying a few bettas, n they would have done the job, but c, now u gotta problem. those tadpoles will become frogs... a shitload of them. u better find a way to control them before they get outa hand!

[howardnews]

This is a good idea. Mosquito females will try and find places to lay their eggs. If you are providing somewhere that they can breed but not allow the larvae to gain maturity, then you're helping keep the populations down.

For the ignorant people below, this is a technique used in developing countries, where predatory animals are introduced to known breeding pools. I don't think the aim was to breed mosquitos :-)

Also, tadpoles ARE omnivores, they are even cannibalistic!

[afffred]

i dont want to burst you bubble, but I'm pretty sure your mosquitoes grew up and flew away...tadpoles like those (which seem to me like either woodfrogs or spring peepers) dont hunt insects, they eat plant matter until they have their backlegs. But cool video anyway!

[Untrue64]

ive seen tadpoles eating worms and misquito larvae.

[IndianRiverMosquito]

@afffred

You got it right afffred. The mosquito larvae completed their cycle and emerged. Look at the mosquito pupal exuviae at 1:02 the leftover case from which the adult emerges.Most tadpoles are herbivores.

That's why you don't see any videos of tadpoles actually eating larvae.

[seanroberts86]

let me help you figure this out:mosquito small ,plastic cover big even if you glued the surface down all the way around your hazard(and i do mean that,if i where your neighbor and i found out about this i would not like it)zone,you still could not keep them from escaping.look up mosquito testing,the box is sealed tight.

NEVER BREED MOSQUITO'S PLEASE!!!

[CRESENT67345]

I once had a pet tadpole

[JACOBSMONSTER]

me too! but i put tap water and it died

[JudgeMAGiC]

This was a cool video!!.. just one question though, I know some people take ignorance as "being stupid, retard, dumb intead of take it as its "not knowing/ignoring". What were those things that were eating mosquito larvae?..

Thanks!

[GREENPOWERSCIENCE]

Tadpoles or future frogs.

[JudgeMAGiC]

Cool! thanks!..

[Evangeloz141]

do you know how to find out what species your tadpoles are? mine look very similar

[jojo808]

i love the pollywog stage the best =P

[tour86rocker]

*Some tadpoles are exclusively herbivorous

I guess it's important to know what kind of frogs are native to your area before preparing a mosquito breeding ground!

[isee123abc]

I love this video! :D

[GREENPOWERSCIENCE]

Thank you, glad you like it:-)

[UKBB]

So do you have little froglettes yet?

[GREENPOWERSCIENCE]

Hi,

No they are just getting bigger. I thought they would be ready by now. I will post a video if they ever grow up:-)

[ColdSideOfPillow136]

@UKBB These are certainly chorus frog tadpoles.

[BusterAndGreyce]

like that one

[GREENPOWERSCIENCE]

This one was cast out of fiberglass several years ago. We used a plywood mold, waxed it and fibered it with long thick cloth strips. The frame is 1/2" square tubing welded as this tank had to be move a lot. The tank has one inlet and two jets. It pumps 8GPM. We also made one out of 16" PVC cut in half. The corners were elbows. The cost was about the same but a lot easier. I think the pipe came from a plumbing supply specialist. Lowes only goes up to 6".

[BusterAndGreyce]

ok thanx

[BusterAndGreyce]

how do u build a pond

[GREENPOWERSCIENCE]

This Type? Or a regular Round one?

[HollieTash]

i had a old flower pot outside my house with water in it, and i had mosquito larvae in it, idk wht i was so ty..now i kno. the pots broken and nothings in it now so were safe xD

[VantageAlaska]

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[VantageAlaska]

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[UKBB]

When I had a tank of Blue Ram Cichlids I would put pans of water out in the back yard to collect mosquito larvae. The Rams loved them!

[GREENPOWERSCIENCE]

Those are beautiful fish. Great idea on feeding. After a bit of Google research, mosquito larvae are eaten by a lot of aquarium pets, even though they are not officially on their diet.

[nonew3]

Could tadpoles be one of the answers to controlling the spread of malaria in malaria-endemic countries?

[GREENPOWERSCIENCE]

Yes, to some degree. Some tadpoles are strictly herbivores and do not eat larvae but many do. Even the herbivore only tadpoles have some effect as they compete with mosquito larvae for food. Any over abundance of mosquito larvae can reduce the growth rate of tadpoles and large flourishing populations of tadpoles can limit mosquito larvae gestation. There are some concerns that mosquito fish introduced to feed on mosquito larvae can also destroy tadpoles. This can devastate frog populations.

[nonew3]

Thanks for the information. I am currently in college studying to eventually become a medical researcher with a focus on malaria, and therefore am interested in different approaches to controlling (and hopefully someday eliminating) the disease.

Wow, even the approaches are complicated and have their pros and cons!

Again, thanks.

[sync5controller]

When will you be doing the "Grow your own algae and make biodiesel" video?

[GREENPOWERSCIENCE]

Our large 20000 gallon fish pond has Koi and water hyacinths. Last summer the water hyacinths did not reproduce? The top layer of the pond developed 2" layer of algae in 3 days. I manually removed it with a 5 gallon bucket. All together it was about 1500 gallons of mucky water. When the algae comes back this year I will try and harvest it out of the pond. ANY UNIQUE ideas for breeding ponds (clear bags, barrels etc) I am open to ideas. Thank you for the comment.

[sync5controller]

Well, what seems to be common in the "algae fuel" videos are vertical bags or clear PVC tubing. Either would work. Check out Glen Kertz method. That shouldn't be too difficult to duplicate. Growing it should be easy, but I haven't seen a good "oil extraction" demo on youtube yet. There is mention of ultrasonics, microwave and compression methods mentioned but no videos of it. Algae is the next big thing.

[cosmanthony21]

Yup, that is every day knowledge. For me anyway as theres a pond out back. But for you sake, how do you think the tadpoles were laid in that water-park slide-like half-pipe thing. What the hell is it called?

[GREENPOWERSCIENCE]

The park slide thing was from an old carnival fishing game. Like a kiddy duck pond. The pump does 10 gpm when there are no tadpoles to get sucked in. There are frogs and lizards everywhere, around our place. I wanted to get a video of a tadpole eating a larvae but they get spooked when I get close. The tadpoles are only 1/4" to 1/2".

[pifibbi]

u would'nt need to maintain your "pond" as much because their seems to be a cycle. when their are many larve, tadpoles eat them and over populate. because of their great numbers. this once again allows the mosquitoes to reproduce and produce more larve for the tadpoles.