On Fri, 01 Sep 2006 15:53:29 +0100, brother > wrote:

>rick wrote:
>> "brother" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> rick wrote:
>>>> "brother" > wrote in message
>>>> ...
>>>>> dh@. wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> http://tinyurl.com/goh3f
>>>>> Do you really think there's four amphibians in EVERY square
>>>>> foot of rice?
>>>>> =======================
>>>> There can be. Each spring around our pond it gets so that
>>>> you cannot even walk
>>>> around the pond. It looks like the grass is moving there are
>>>> that many frogs. It's like a bad
>>>> horror film where a carpet of frogs are all moving in mass...
>>>> Even now I'll see several while i mow.
>>>> Some years are really bad, this year had somewhat fewer
>>>> numbers than last, but it seemed like they are
>>>> here longer.
>>>>
>>> What rice field are you referring to?
>>> =========================
>> Nice strawman. It doesn't HAVE to be a rice field, only a body
>> of water.
>
>What

It's the stuff they flood rice fields with, changing the environment
and drowning land animals. Then a new group of creatures establish
populations in the new water filled environment. Later the water
is drained, killing a lot of the water dependant animals. A while later
the harvester comes along killing a lot of the ones who still survive.
After harvest, pretty much anything that has survived is killed off
by predators who have easy pickings because their prey (the
creatures who lived in the rice field) have lost the shelter of the
rice plants.