Linda Pitkin / 2020VISION / Common Toads (Bufo bufo) in amplexus (mating) with strings of toad spawn. Surrey, England, March.

Linda Pitkin / 2020VISION / Common Toads (Bufo bufo) in amplexus (mating) with strings of toad spawn in background. Surrey, England, March.

Linda Pitkin / 2020VISION / Common Toads (Bufo bufo) in amplexus (mating) with strings of toad spawn in background. Surrey, England, March.

Linda Pitkin / 2020VISION / Common Toads (Bufo bufo) in amplexus (mating) with strings of toad spawn in background. Surrey, England, March.

Solvin Zankl / Pair of Common european toads (Bufo bufo) in amplexus with strings of toadspawn, in pond, Germany

Nick Upton / Oyster (Lophia folium) farm with shellfish growing on strings, mouth of Rhone delta near Port Napoleon, France, May.

Stephen Dalton / Common european toads (Bufo bufo) pair in amplexus with strings of toad spawn, UK

Kim Taylor / Sludge worms (Tubifex sp) congregating at the bottom of a pond in mid-winter, Surrey, England

Will Watson / Common european toad {Bufo bufo} attempting to mate with Common frog {Rana temporaria} with strings of toadspawn and clumps of frogspawn, Herefordshire, UK

Solvin Zankl / Breeding Common european toads (Bufo bufo) with strings of toadspawn, Germany

Willem Kolvoort / Common European toad egg strings (Bufo bufo) hanging in the waterplants (here Stonewort) in order to get sufficient oxygen, sand-winning pit, Holland

Willem Kolvoort / Egg strings of Water mite {Piona coccinea} amongst Stonewort algae, Lake Naarden, Holland