You might find one holed up in a damp cellar or tucked into a woodpile. Egg mass Salamander crossing the road at night March 26 is their earliest noted spring appearance here, but you will see them during April and May courting and mating in ponds at night. The male does an elaborate courtship dance to attract the female. Eggs are laid in water, in fist-sized masses of jelly attached to pond plants. Each female can lay up to several hundred eggs.
Some larvae mature after one summer in the pond, but others overwinter in the mud.
These become adults during their second summer.