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Disease

Identifying causes of amphibian deaths

If you have found dead amphibians in your garden you can use this information to identify a possible culprit.

Which species?
The first thing is to be sure which species you've found - use our amphibian pages to help identify them. >>> 

Which life-stage?
There can be different causes at different stages in an amphibian's life and at different times of the year.
O Spawn. >>>
O Tadpoles. >>>
O Froglets / toadlets. >>>
O Adult amphibians. >>>

Further causes
If you've looked through the information above and do not think what you've seen matches the descriptions then if may be the amphibians have suffered from disease. >>>

More information
The information on these pages also exists in our advice sheet Amphibian Health and Disease. >>>