Image: Cane Toad
Cane Toad
- Photographer:
- Emma Gray
- Rights:
- © Australian Museum
- Common name:
- Cane Toad
- Scientific name:
- Rhinella marina
- Family:
- Bufonidae
- Order:
- Anura
Additional information
Cane Toads were introduced to Australia to eat French's Cane Beetle and the Greyback Cane Beetle. The 'whitegrub' larvae of these beetles eat the roots of sugar cane and kill or stunt the plants. The Australian Bureau of Sugar Experimental Stations imported about 100 toads from Hawaii to the Meringa Experimental Station near Cairns. The toads bred quickly and more than 3000 were released in the sugar cane plantations of north Queensland in July 1935.
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