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Cane toads (Bufo marinus) originally came from Mexico, Central America, and South America. They ranged from the Rio Grande to the Amazon basin. They have been introduced to many islands in the Caribbean and Pacific, to Florida, Japan, and Papua New Guinea. Probably their most famous and disastrous introduction was to Australia.
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What lineage did amittai come from was it cane or shem?
cane
Why did cane toads come to Australia?
Cane toads were imported by the Australian Bureau of Sugar Experimental Stations to eat cane beetles. The beetles were a major pest of sugar cane and threatened to ruin the industry. The Greyback and French's Cane Beetles, native insects that naturally ate grass roots, bored into the roots of sugar cane crops and were causing the plants to die and go brown. Control with poisons like arsenic trioxide, carbon disulfide and even 1,4 dichlorobenzene was failing badly, and the success of biological control against he prickly pear led influential politicians and the CSIR to believe the toad would eat the beetles.Unfortunately, toads cannot access adult beetles which fly away and the larvae live underground, so the experiment was a failure. European common toads (Bufo bufo) were tested for controlling grass grubs, but it was found they could not dig down to reach them - a basic quarantine process never done with cane toads.Since none of Australia's native animals have resistance to bufotenin (unlike other places where cane toads have been introduced), they have become more of a pest than the beetles ever were. Quolls, medium-sized carnivorous marsupials, have been very badly hit by poisoning from toads and now are largely confined to Tasmania where toads cannot reach (they sink in seawater). Many snakes have also declined badly where toads are present.Fertility control methods, though as yet unproven despite years of research, offer the only hope for control. However, I do not even know basic questions on this issue like how long poisonous toad eggs remain viable without sperm to fertilise them - I have assumed they would eventually die in the absence of sperm, but I have not found data.
Where does pirates come from?
Pirates originally come from Jamaica but can also come from the Caribbean.
Where did jerking originally come from?
cali
Where did the people of Central America originally come from?
originally Asia but now the answer is more Spain
What was to control cane beetles in 1935?
cane toads
Do cane toads have gills?
cane toads have lungs
Did the cane toads get rid of the Cain beetles?
No they will not. Toads always feed on land and are not able to eat under water where tadpoles live.
Who brought cane toads?
Cane toads were brought to Australia by British settlers.
Where are Cane Toads originally from?
because they were used to help the sugercane grow by eating the beetles that ate the sugercane
What country has the most cane toads?
cane toads are most popular in south America
Do cane toads eat blue banded bee?
No. Cane toads do not pose a threat to blue banded bees.
Where can cane toads be found in the US?
If you want to know where you can buy can toads, Then you have come to the wrong place. Cane toads can`t be sold They can only be captured and killed. which I think is unfair. Curse those people who kill them. Branidi out.
When were cane toads introduced to Australia and why?
Ironically they were introduced to destroy a cane-beetle plague. But the beetles are living in cane, where the toads cannot reach them. Also, cane beetles are too small to serve as food, so the toads left the canefields and entered forrests and swamps where they eat anything they can swallow. So recently, they are a pest themselves.
Do cane toads eat spiders?
Cane toads do eat spiders. They mostly eat insects. They will eat whatever they can fit I their mouths like snails, small frogs, and other cane toads.
Why didn't cane toads take over Hawaii?
cane toads eat all native species like insects and snake eat cane toads but then the snake will die from the poison inside the cane toad and might lead into exiction
What eats cane toads and how are they affected?
Not many animals eat cane toads because of their warts and their repulsive appearance. The few creatures that eat toads include snakes, and owls. However, cane toads are frequently run over and squashed on the roads.
