These predators include dragonfly larva, water boatmen, snakes or birds. Frogs are a protected species so their spawn or tadpoles should not be removed from their pond. ... Adult newts can eat frog spawn. Late stage frog tadpoles can eat young newts when the frog tadpoles are in the carnivore stage.

What will eat frog spawn?

The most common cause of disappearing spawn/tadpoles in the numerous predators in and out of the pond. These include fish, newts, water boatmen, dragonfly larvae, birds, rats, foxes and hedgehogs.

Can frogs and newts coexist?

Newts and frogs are not mutually exclusive but they do tend to have a bit of a boom-bust relationship. Newts eat tadpoles, so ponds with lots of newts tend to have fewer frogs. ... It may be that a pond is just more suitable for newts than frogs.