Good question.
Garden ponds have bee life savers for amphibians where natural
habitat has been altered for housing and commercial development.

Like all amphibians they are very sensitive to chemicals. I always
worry about neighbors spraying and fertilizing and applying chemicals
where our native frogs are concerned.

Your newts may have fallen prey to this. Or there may be several
industrious cats operating in the neighborhood. Or some hungry birds.

If you know of a pond where newts breed you can go harvest some eggs
or baby newtlings and adopt them. As always you must be careful to follow
local law when mucking around in natural ponds. Another safe bet is a
fellow garden pond keeper.

kathy :-)



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