Anja Murray: Frogs are gardeners' friends — encourage them with a pond in your garden

There are 165 million frogs in Ireland and they feed on slugs and flies 

Brown frog and frogspawn

Ireland has an estimated 165 million frogs. That’s more than 20 frogs per hectare, making these little green creatures one of the most numerous vertebrates in Ireland.

Being a wet country, frogs are well suited to Irish habitats, with plenty of ponds, lake edges, bogs, wet ditches and other places where frogs can breed.