So yay hope you are all having a wonderful day Ah mate, somebody's dropped a load of frogspawn on your watermelon there.
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I don't know about you, but I always like to start my day with a bowl full of frogspawn and bits of broken shell, eaten off an anatomical drawing of a cricket.
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In a charming segment with Blue Peter presenter Lindsay Russell that aired in June, Kate took part in a race to build a den, helped some kids create innovative plant pots by upcycling some old Wellington boots and joined in a hunt for creatures like newts and frogspawn in a pond.
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In a charming segment with Blue Peter presenter Lindsay Russell that airs on Thursday's episode, Kate takes part in a race to build a den, helps some kids create innovative plant pots by upcycling some old Wellington boots and joins in a hunt for creatures like newts and frogspawn in a pond.
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Euphyllia paradivisa, or branching frogspawn coral, is a species of large- polyped stony coral belonging to the Euphylliidae family. It shares the common name of "frogspawn coral" with Euphyllia divisa, but is differentiated as the "branching" frogspawn whereas Euphyllia divisa has a "wall" structure. It is a commonly kept species in the marine aquarium hobby. Euphyllia paradivisa is considered a vulnerable species by the IUCN Red List.
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Frogspawn Frogs' embryos are typically surrounded by several layers of gelatinous material. When several eggs are clumped together, they are collectively known as frogspawn. The jelly provides support and protection while allowing the passage of oxygen, carbon dioxide and ammonia. It absorbs moisture and swells on contact with water.
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Frogspawn, a mass of eggs surrounded by jelly Amphibian egg: 1\. Jelly capsule 2. Vitelline membrane 3\. Perivitelline fluid 4.
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Euphyllia divisa, commonly known as frogspawn coral and sometimes misspelled Euphyllia divisia, is a large-polyped stony coral native to the Indo-Pacific islands. It is a commonly kept species in the marine aquarium hobby. The related coral Euphyllia paradivisa is frequently misidentified as frogspawn leading to some confusion. Euphyllia divisa has a corallite skeleton with a flabello-meandroid "wall" structure whereas Euphyllia paradivisa has a tree- like branching structure with separate coralites.
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His wife Mary Mackie wrote three books on their experiences there: Cobwebs and Cream Teas, Dry Rot and Daffodils and Frogspawn and Floor Polish.British Library search under "Mary Mackie" Retrieved 4 August 2017.
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British schoolchildren have traditionally nicknamed the dish frog spawn, due to its appearance."School Dinners: Top Of The Slops", Sky News, London, 5 August 2003. Retrieved on 6 November 2011. The Guardian described it as "Britain's most hated school pudding", with names such as fish eyes, frogspawn and eyeball pudding.
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Frogspawn is mesolecithal. Mesolecithal eggs have comparatively more yolk than the microlecithal eggs. The yolk is concentrated in one part of the egg (the vegetal pole), with the cell nucleus and most of the cytoplasm in the other (the animal pole). The cell cleavage is uneven, and mainly concentrated in the cytoplasma-rich animal pole.
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Frogspawn (eggs) of the eastern spadefoot, Rehovot Vernal pool, Israel Close up of a several days old frogspawn (eggs) of the eastern spadefoot Rehovot Vernal pool, Israel The eastern spadefoot is nocturnal and returns to the same lair each night when it has finished foraging for molluscs, spiders, insects and other small arthropods. As well as digging its own burrow, it sometimes makes use of a rodent hole or a crevice under a rock. At times when the air temperature is very hot it retires to the deepest part of its burrow and may aestivate in mid-summer. At these times the toads that live in the moist soil of riverbanks may fare better than those elsewhere and in times of drought, there may be a high mortality rate among toads.
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"Death of a Naturalist", the collection's second poem, details the exploits of a young boy collecting frogspawn from a flax-dam. The narrator remembers everything he saw and felt at those times. He then remembers his teacher telling him all about frogs in a section that speaks volumes about childhood innocence. Finally, we hear about a trip to the flax-dam that went wrong.
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Frogspawn development. The larvae that emerge from the eggs, known as tadpoles (or occasionally polliwogs), typically have oval bodies and long, vertically flattened tails. As a general rule, free-living larvae are fully aquatic, but at least one species (Nannophrys ceylonensis) has semiterrestrial tadpoles which live among wet rocks. Tadpoles lack eyelids and have cartilaginous skeletons, lateral line systems, gills for respiration (external gills at first, internal gills later), and vertically flattened tails they use for swimming.
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They have corpulent bodies with a rounded snout, webbed feet and long hind legs adapted for swimming in water and hopping on land. Common frogs are often confused with the common toad Bufo bufo, but frogs can easily be distinguished as they have longer legs, hop, and have a moist skin, whereas toads crawl and have a dry 'warty' skin. The spawn of the two species also differs in that frogspawn is laid in clumps and toadspawn is laid in long strings.
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A frog in frogspawn In biology, offspring are the young born of living organisms, produced either by a single organism or, in the case of sexual reproduction, two organisms. Collective offspring may be known as a brood or progeny in a more general way. This can refer to a set of simultaneous offspring, such as the chicks hatched from one clutch of eggs, or to all the offspring, as with the honeybee. Human offspring (descendants) are referred to as children (without reference to age, thus one can refer to a parent's "minor children" or "adult children" or "infant children" or "teenage children" depending on their age); male children are sons and female children are daughters (see kinship and descent).
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Mary Mackie's books Cobwebs and Cream Teas (1990), Dry Rot and Daffodils (1994) and Frogspawn and Floor Polish (2003) are light-hearted accounts of life in the North Norfolk National Trust property Felbrigg Hall, where her husband was houseman (administrator) for seven years up to 1990.Hachette site. Another non-fiction book of hers that attracted notice was The Prince's Thorn (2008), about Louisa Mary Cresswell (1830–1916), whose autobiographical Eighteen Years on Sandringham Estate by "The Lady Farmer" (1887)British Library Catalogue entry: Retrieved 18 February 2014. Cresswell had already written two non-controversial pamphlets: Norfolk and the Squires, Clergy, Farmers and Labourers, etc. (1875) and How the Farming in Great Britain Can Be Made to Pay (2nd e. 1881).
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Kennedy, by contrast, suggests that Dunbar was descended from Beelzebub, is a dwarf, and has no control of his bowel movements (to the point of almost sinking a ship in which he is travelling). Both cast doubt on the other's poetic skill; Kennedy states that while he ascends Mount Parnassus to drink of the inspirational waters of the Castalian Spring, Dunbar goes "in Marche or Februere" to a farm pond and drinks the frogspawn. The satire may perhaps give us caricature impressions of the physical appearance and moral vulnerabilities of the two men, even if no actual portraits of either man are known to have survived. Anthologies often print Dunbar's contribution alone, but the contest was evenly matched; Dunbar may seem stronger on "fireworks", but Kennedy employs greater tonal subtlety.
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