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Cloud of Tadpoles
A swarm of Western Toad, Canada, 2022
Category - Forests
A swarm of Western Toad (Anaxyrus boreas) tadpoles fly through a forest of floating pond weeds in a mountain lake on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. This group is likely made up of siblings as they tend to stay together after hatching from their eggs on their way to metamorphosis. A group of tadpoles is called a cloud and they stay together to confuse and overwhelm predators such as snakes and water bugs. The paperclipsized tadpoles wiggle their way around the underwater forest, feeding on algae.
10 mm f/3.5-4.5 Lens - 1/320 sec at f/11 ISO 250