Earthen toad - amphibian with a bad reputation. Is it really so?

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Few people like amphibian: well, if a frog or toad just inevitable, but often the animal is trying to hurt! Unmotivated aggression on the part of man can be explained only by its narrow-mindedness – it is strange to want to hurt an animal like the earthen toad, if you know about it a little bit.

ground toad

Amphibian with a bad reputation

The Dislike of frogs goes through the generations. In the middle ages these animals were treated with special contempt and fear. In all civilized countries it was believed that to touch the toad – that's death. And the reason for the destruction was allegedly made by the poison secreted by the toad through the skin.

Its intrigue and danger for our ancestors was that a person could become a kind of incubator for them. Explained it this way: with a poor or untreated water you can drink the eggs of frogs, and in the stomach, they successfully hatch and begin active life. For modern man this may sound crazy, but before this state is very actively treated.

Science has proven that man's toad is a no-brainer. Yes, in case of extreme situations earthen toad can produce special protective secretions from the skin, but it performs rather deterrent role, and will not cause any harm.

excavation toad in the garden

Toad or frog: how to distinguish?

For many people, is a fundamental question: who exactly they met, the frog if the frog? And although the danger is not nor one nor the other, to distinguish them quite easy.

  • Toad in larger sizes: the adult can reach 15 inches in length.
  • The Body of a toad loose, the contours are clearly outlined. The head is quite low down pressed to the ground.
  • Skin can have a tint from ashy-gray to dark green. It has a large number of warts, tubercles and glands.
  • The Toad, unlike the frog can't jump. She confidently goes to the goal.

Most people are on vacation amphibians in ponds or in yards where there is a constant source of moisture. So, usually feels great earth toad in the garden – that is where gardeners often meet and unreasonably scared.

what to eat excavation toads

Life and habits

Like other amphibians, the season of falling temperatures toads hibernate. So no one can disturb the process of expectations heat, they burrow into the soil to a depth of 10 centimeters, hiding under the roots of trees and stumps and can even use the abandoned burrows of rodents.

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In the warm season activity of frogs falls on the night. At this time, they go in search of food-it's not uncommon on a summer evening to meet a toad in places, lit by lanterns.

Quite interesting is the answer to the question, how to multiply excavation toads. First of all, these animals cannot do without water: in the reservoir they spawn.

The Eggs of frogs have a special kind of – it resembles a long, thin cord. Such cords rest on the bottom of the pond or can be wrapped around algae. Sometimes the length of such cord reaches 5-8 meters!

Tadpoles that emerge from the eggs, the first time do not appear on the surface. They live on the bottom, eating small algae and what was left of the dying animals and plants. Tadpoles develop fairly quickly, and after 50-60 days on land may receive a full green or earthen toad.

how to multiply excavation toads

Fear or a green thumb?

What to do if you suddenly met the earthen toad in the garden or in the garden? Is it possible to touch it, do not spoil it crop? And maybe bring some friends and frogs will have nowhere to hide?

To answer the question, what do toads in the garden or vegetable garden, you need to know what to eat excavation toads.

The Main food for them are insects. They are not squeamish about caterpillars, various centipedes, and snails. Toad can't scare bright colors or an unusual insect. Seeing the object for Breakfast, toad waddle goes to his goal.

What is the benefit to the grower? The most direct! Earthen toad – this is a great organic method of pest control, and eaters of crops. She is such a nurse crop, which in the evenings comes to bypass their territory.

So, having met on the way or the garden is a turtle, no need to act like medieval Europeans and to run for “antigonum” antidote or pesticide. Don't hurt the animal and not stomp on him out of the way, because it is their business, performing their natural functions. As a side effect from it – use to man.


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