Marbled Salamander Eggs

Mating takes place on land and then the females will move to dried vernal pools or other soon to be flooded areas to lay eggs.

Marbled salamander eggs.

As marbled salamander breeding season begins residents are encouraged to implement precautions to prevent accidental salamander mortalities at in ground swimming pools and to report their sightings of a state. Marbled salamander habitat is indirectly managed through wetland and water resource protection forestry management regulations i e new hampshire rsa 482 a. Marbled salamanders ambystoma opacum this female marbled salamander is seen are scientifically very interesting but also laying eggs in a moist rotten log. The marbled salamander feeds primarily on terrestrial invertebrates such as worms spiders snails centipedes and a variety of insects.

Megan made a great find as she and melissa were turning over logs at the edge of a vernal pool looking for salamanders some viable marbled salamander eggs. Adults take terrestrial invertebrates such as worms insects centipedes and mollusks snails slugs. A marbled salamander larva. Best management practices for erosion control on timber harvesting operations in new.

Marbled salamander eggs under log two friends from the museum megan and melissa invited me to tag along with them yesterday as they did some fieldwork for a future workshop. Marbled salamanders breed in autumn unlike most other mole salamanders which breed in winter and migrate to wetlands during before a good rain to court and mate. Females will lay about 30 females will lay about 30 100 eggs in a depression on land usually beneath a log or leaf litter. Adult marbled salamanders breed only in dried up pools ponds and ditches and females lay their eggs under the leaves there.

It gets its name from the white or silver bands that cover the black bodies of adult salamanders. The eggs hatch after the ponds refill. Larvae take small aquatic animals zooplankton but larger individuals will take eggs and larvae of other amphibians as well.