Scientists believe water may be the key in the battle between two introduced species - the cane toad and the dung beetle. Cane toads have left a trail of ecological destruction in their wake as ...

Scientists believe water may be the key in the battle between two species introduced to Australia. One of those species is the dung beetle, a valuable insect introduced by the cattle industry to ...

In the 1930s, Australian farmers faced a major threat to their sugarcane crops, grubs from the cane beetle. In a desperate bid to save the crops, officials introduced a natural predator: the cane ...

In June 1935, the cane toad began its invasion of Australia. Sailors brought the animal over from Hawaii in an attempt to control the cane beetle that was ravaging Australia’s sugar cane crops.

Cane toads, introduced in 1935 to control cane beetles, have now spread across a huge swathe of Australia, from the Kimberley in northern Western Australia to northern New South Wales. They’re ...

Cane toads make life difficult for Australian native animals. ... the cane beetle, ... But the water rats in the north of Australia are native animals and apparently super smart.

They’re native to Central and South America and were first introduced to Florida in the 1930s as a form of biological pest control to eat beetles threatening the sugar cane crop. That toad ...

Graeme Sawyer holds a 40 cm (15inch) cane toad near Darwin, Australia Monday, March 26, 2007. By The Associated Press | The Associated Press UPDATED: May 7, 2016 at 10:20 PM MDT ...

Unfortunately, the 2,400 cane toads didn't do much to quell the beetle population. Instead, because the poisonous toads have no natural predators in Australia, they bred out of control. Today ...

Cane toads were introduced to Queensland in northeast Australia in 1935 to combat the cane beetle, a sugar cane pest, and have been steadily marching westward across the continent since.

Last week, the world met “Toadzilla”, a cane toad the size of a football and six times larger than average. The rangers who found her were stunned. Weighing in at 2.7 kilograms, Toadzilla may be the ...