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Toad Photos

May 13, 2016
hand holding a tiny toad
 

Photo Description
I found this little hopper while walking on a trail in the park. I am pretty sure it is a southern toad. It is hard to tell when they are this young. This little toad is a newly metamorphosed toadlet and will have to wait 2 to 3 years before it can reproduce and start the process over again. Female toads will usually lay between 2500 to 4000 eggs in long, coiled, jelly-like strands in wetlands, ditches, and even tire ruts. Eggs will hatch in a few days and become tadpoles and within a month they undergo metamorphosis into little toadlets like this one. Toads usually emerge in great numbers and stay near the water source where they were hatched. I am sure there were many more around me that I did not see. Toads this size are a favorite meal for the newly hatched hognose snake, which is another completely different story.

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Carolina Beach State Park, North Carolina

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December 4, 2020

I rescued Big Boy three years ago from a sandbar on the Missouri River. He was a newly metamorphosed toadlet on an extremely overcrowded sandbar. There was at least a thousand other baby toads there and he would likely not have made it to adulthood.

A large toad in his tank.

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July 9, 2018

Although it's not the most beautiful feature on my patio, it's one of the most entertaining. Even though I have always known toads are a good form of insect control, I'd never been very fond of them.

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That is until this little fellow I named Fred started showing up on our patio every evening and morning.

Morning Entertainment (Toad) - brown toad on potted plant

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June 23, 2017

While building a raised bed garden with cinder blocks, we discovered this little fellow trying to blend in with the colors of the block, while at the same time doing his best "Yoda" impersonation. I think he succeeded in both.

Yoda Toad - toad sitting in the corner of a cinder block garden block

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September 21, 2010

My husband was outside watering when he saw the dirt move. As he looked closer he saw that it wasn't dirt at all. It was this cute baby horned toad. He brought it inside to show to the family.

horned toad on palm of hand

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September 8, 2010

My kids found this cute little black toad in our yard and I had to take a picture of it, of course. :) The kids love to have me take pictures of their finds.

child's hand holding a dark colored toad

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September 7, 2010

While working under the deck. My husband came running for me to get the camera. There in the rocks was the biggest toad just trying to blend in.

toad in rocks

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August 11, 2010

The toads come to live in a small area outside my basement sliding glass doors. I caught this toad last summer wearing a salamander hat.

A Toad With a Salamander Hat

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