What is this - polliwog ?

[Cross-7]

Lots of them swimming up close to the bank
6" long
3-4" wide

 

[inyati13]

A big tadpole, larval form of frog, Genus Rana. Has to be a bullfrog, too big for other frogs.

In all classes of vertebrate, identifying larva and juveniles is a challenge. Some juvenile snakes look nothing like the adult.

 

[Cross-7]

Yes lots of huge bullfrogs
Cant hardly sleep out at night for loud croaking

 

[inyati13]

Guess what. Genus of bullfrog has been changed. Listed now as Lithobates catesbeianus.

 

[JSCATTLE]

Looks like dinner in about 6 months

 

[HDRider]

I thought a polliwog was a baby catfish.

 

[inyati13]

I thought a polliwog was a baby catfish.

Nope. Did you read Tow Sawyer as a youngster?

Mostly, I remember the adventures we had. There was a polliwog pond, railroad tracks, a lumber yard, and lots of factories nearby.....

 

[cowboy43]

Tom Sawyer is an endangered species.

 

[Workinonit Farm]

Those are some big tad-poles! Going to be some big frogs when they grow up.

 

[backhoeboogie]

I thought a polliwog was a baby catfish.

I with you. Polliwod, polliwog are tiny catfish. They never get very big. We had a pond full of them but you could not use them for bait on trot lines. Illegal because they are a member of the catfish family. We put some big catfish in the pond and they fed on the polliwods.

 

[dun]

Bullhead Catfish - Yeah, a pollywog is a frog. But in Texas, for some reason, they also call these cats pollys.

From a catfishing journal

 

[talltimber]

Bullhead Catfish - Yeah, a pollywog is a frog. But in Texas, for some reason, they also call these cats pollys.

From a catfishing journal

Usually means small bullhead cat here. I have heard it used as a tadpole too though

 

[HDRider]

Bullhead Catfish - Yeah, a pollywog is a frog. But in Texas, for some reason, they also call these cats pollys.

From a catfishing journal

We called them polly cats too.

 

[M-5]

that's a bullfrog tadpole

 

[Muddy]

Polliwog is usually preferred to a bullfrog tadpole here. A bullhead is a bullhead.

 

[greybeard]

Used to be lots of thos big tadpoles here (and bullfrogs) till the blue herons moved in and keep them ate down to just a few.

 

[True Grit Farms]

Used to be lots of thos big tadpoles here (and bullfrogs) till the blue herons moved in and keep them ate down to just a few.

Blue herons the worst varmint I have to deal with.

 

[JSCATTLE]

I didn't have any bull frogs for along time .. one spring me and my son were walking past the pond and I saw a water snake.. we went and go our 22's and came back .. I started scanning the overhanging brush and counted 13 water snakes .. we killed all 13 that day .. a few months later and you can hear the bullfrogs during the day now.. I counted 23 last Saturday night ..

 

[dun]

I didn't have any bull frogs for along time .. one spring me and my son were walking past the pond and I saw a water snake.. we went and go our 22's and came back .. I started scanning the overhanging brush and counted 13 water snakes .. we killed all 13 that day .. a few months later and you can hear the bullfrogs during the day now.. I counted 23 last Saturday night ..

Of the 5 ponds we have, 3 have bass and bluegill, 2 have bass, bluegill and channel cats. The 2 ponds with cats there isn;t a frog to be heard or seen. The other 3 are loaded with them. One of the 2 with cats used to have frogs until I put cats in it about 4 years ago, bye bye frogs.

 

[City Guy]

Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary defines Pollywog as a tadpole.