A plague of toads.

Dave H (MI) · Sep 22, 2015

The trench for the footing for the barn retaining wall had to be left open all weekend. I checked it every morning for trapped wildlife. Other than the stupid deer walking up to the edge and looking in I could see no sign of activity. We started pouring concrete at the south end and by the time we got to the north end we had a lot of toads piling up. As the concrete slumped into the last few feet they came right up with it until we could reach down and liberate them from the hole. I do not know if they can survive being coated in cement/water, likely would kill a frog but toads...I dunno? One was smallish but the rest were frigging huge! Like fill up a whole saucer huge. I tossed them all over in the weeds growing up around my folding disk. They had all left when I checked later...guess they made it. Hope so. I always had a soft spot for toads.

Ozlander · Sep 22, 2015

Toads are good.
Think of how many bugs they have to eat to get to that size.

notjustair · Sep 22, 2015

My favorite sight is about this time of year when the frogs and toads are really big. When the hogs lay in the mud holes those huge suckers crawl up on them and eat all of the flies that land. You would think the hogs wouldn't like it, but they clearly understand the benefits. Those frogs and toads just keep slowly moving around on those hogs. There's usually three to each hog.

2x4 · Sep 23, 2015

With all the people that eat frog legs, wonder why nobody eats toad logs?

Gene Dotson · Sep 23, 2015

pHave had hundreds of small toads earlier this summer. Started out about thumbnail size uo to very large ones. I was looking at my bean field and had some japanese beetles on the leaves. Saw one big toad on the ground and when a beetle fell to the ground or got on the lower leaves, the toad would get him.

Someone on Facebook posted a video where a toad was watching a leaf that ants were crossing. Each time an ant crossed the leaf, the toad would get him.

Gene

Billy NY · Sep 23, 2015

Nice you saved them, they live for 30 years. You should have rinsed them off, the concrete is caustic and it will cause severe burns on human skin, that may have killed them later unless they were able to rinse off in the dew or something. Anytime one handles amphibians, its good to wet them down, frogs especially.

RayP(MI) · Sep 23, 2015

Yeah, we got a couple big ones here this summer. One hangs out by back door, other in polebarn. Ugly, warty things! Had no idea they lived up to 30 years - these guys must be senior citizens!

A plague of toads.

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