A willow branch placed in the rain barrel to produce roots now becomes a nice resting place for this little pickeral frog. Rain barrels placed under downspouts around your home are a good way to conserve water for watering parched plants. Mosquitos are eliminated by placing Mosquito Dunks (biological mosquito control pellets shaped like doughnuts - bacillus thuringiensis) which are safe for fish, etc. I place mine in those plastic floating frogs that are used in pools to hold chlorine tablets. It keeps them from being washed away during a heavy rain.Just enjoying rain barrel frogs brings me 30 minutes closer to personal peace ;0)
Image by Carolyn Hietala - More nature pictures here: http://carolynhietalanatureartpaintings.blogspot.com/
UPDATE to this Rain Barrel post.....
due to the many emails from people that are interested in more information..... here is a link to the Clean Virginia Waterways' rain barrel information page from their website: http://www.longwood.edu/cleanva/rainbarrels.htm
2 comments:
Very cute picture of the frog and interesting post about the mosquito dunks--I'll have to learn more about them--I always collect water and mostly dump it out--onto the plants--to kill the larvae. But I could collect more if I could safely kill the larvae--fish work well! :-D
Thanks Mary,
I have a Chesterfield County employee from their Environmental Dept. to thank for that one..... West Nile Virus has come to our area unfortunately ;0(
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