The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department is asking drivers to be alert as salamanders and frogs begin to emerge and cross roads to get to breeding sites.
When traveling at night drivers should slow down or take alternate routes to avoid being on roads near wetlands and ponds that salamanders and frogs cross during their breeding season. Most activity occurs on nights with consistent rainfall and temperatures above 40 degrees after snowmelt reveals patches of bare ground.
Fish and Wildlife herpetologist Luke Groff says the annual migration may be the only time of the year some species will be seen, such as spotted and blue-spotted salamanders that “after breeding retreat underground or under logs or stumps, and may not be seen until next spring.”
