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Got any tinned cat food?

I read where feeding it to the ants is the newest weapon in the war against the cane toad. Sounds more efficient than sprinkling them with Dettol, and much less disgusting than chucking them into the freezer!

Have any of you had an encounter or four hundred with cane toads?

Awaiting your replies.

Lawrence/Maytagbear
 
Yeah, I read the article recently.

The cat food attracts flesh-eating ants and is strategically placed around places where cane toads breed. The ants than attack the infant cane toads and kill them.

I've attached an article on Cane toads, which you may find intresting.

The first time I visited Cairns in 1984, they were everywhere and I mean to the extent that one couldn't go for a walk after dark without stepping on them. Over the years their numbers have decreased and, whilst they are still considered a pest, they are certainly not at the same plague proportions anymore.

The main concern is the toads' adabtability to new environments and tendency to spread. They have well and truly left the Queensland cane fields behind and are constantly on the move. It is the pressure they place on ecosystems and native fauna that people here are worried about.

It would appear that other animals have adapted to the Cane toad's presence and even learnt to eat them without getting poisoned. Nature has its own way of re-establishing the balance in time.

We don't have them in Sydney yet, but they have spread to northern New South Wales and the Northern Territory.

Olav

australianmuseum.net.au

Cane Toad

The Cane Toad is tough and adaptable, as well as being poisonous throughout its life cycle, and has few predators in Australia.
australianmuseum.net.au australianmuseum.net.au
 
Not here

Hi Lawrence,
Like Rapunzel I am in metropolitan Sydney and there is no sign of them here yet anyway,I also read the article and I guess it is a different approach than playing golf with the cane toads with the cane toad playing the role of the golf ball which was apparently quite popular in other times.
 
Interesting topic!

Lawrence - a little history if you may...

I was raised in the Whitsunday's in Queensland and Cane Toads were something you wouldn't go a night without seeing... Can recall spending many a night walking the local neighbourhood armed with a golf club!! Was good fun indeed. However they are probably one of the most disgusting creatures on earth!

I've heard some little rumours about this whole cat food and ants thing - but not enough to know the full details...

Let's just say though - anything to get rid of the horrid creature would be well received I think for many Aussies. They can be quite harmful to dogs and children of course. We have two dogs - but they've both been taught to steer well clear of them. However I have heard of horrible stories of people losing their beloved pets to them...

Living where we are - and being summer at the moment - we have two insect zappers running from dusk till about midnight and you can count on it that there will be anywhere from 6 to 20 toads sitting underneath waiting for an easy dinner...

You want me to send some your way??? I'm pretty sure they can cope with the snow! LOL
 
Lovely. Sounds delightful.

I'm too lazy to research. Anyone want to add in some links?

And the funny thing is since I have "won the Australian lottery", I was contemplating a move there.
 
I have "won the Australian lottery",

Elaborate please!

There is also a link at the bottom of my above post.

Olav
 
It takes money to make money

Or as gandpa used to say "Without yeast, bread you can not make."

Thank you for the link.

Thre is a web/internet scam in this country proclaiming the receiver has won the Australian lottery.

Our lotteries are on the state level so one never knows if this even makes sense to be on a national level down under.

It has gotten so bad that the state of Connecticut has commerical advetisements on television (to inform consumers)showing an older trollish man at a computer befuddled as he announces this to his offscreen spouse or whoever "honey" is.. She answers him "Did you even join/enter/buy an Australian lottery ticket?"

So riduulously obvious to most, yet there are a few that are tricked. Of course the way to retrieve one's prize is to send money.................
 
And here I was thinking that you scored yourself a nice Auss

who was gonna bring you over as a mail-order bride.
 
Yes that WOULD be the lottery.

LOL.

If I weren't coupled, I'd say bring it on!

There are a whole lot of Greeks in Australia, I think in Melbourne. Lord knows I'd make a good mail-order bride for one of them. I cook, clean do laundry, am employable and **ck and **ck with enthusiasm.

Do you know why hubands prefer their brides to be in a white wedding gowns?
To match the stove and the washer.
 
LOL ROFLMAO

There was a similar commercial advert. for a cell-phone /mobile phone provider that had a similar story line.

Something to the effect of "Do you research before you commit" and showed a husband and "wife" on theyr honeymoon.

I do aplologize for getting this thread off-track and topic, but all in good fun!

It's Sunday here just before 10am. What day / time is it there?
 
Hi Toggles - sorry for the delayed answer, but I had to get

New York is 16 hours behind Sydney. As I am typing this it is 9:13 am, Monday 22/02/10, blazing sunshine and 28 degrees centigrade in my suburb. I am glad you enjoyed the clips. Are you familiar with 'Little Britain'?

Now I am off to work, enjoy the rest of your evening.

Olav
 
So the meat ants eat the cane toads? That sounds backward to

The meat ants are indigenous and their presence doesn't upset any natural balances. It helping nature restore the balance in a natural way, rather than using chemicals and other less natural means of toad population control.

Olav
 

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