Cane toads in Florida secrete a milky-white toxin that can harm or even kill animals that lick, bite or eat them, including ...

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 ...

South American cane toads were brought to Australia in 1935 to help eradicate native beetles that were destroying sugar cane crops. The toads didn’t care much for the beetles, but they did spread ...

A single cane toad can lay a clutch of more than 30,000 eggs, so manual control methods have struggled to keep up with their population growth. Instead, biologists are turning to gene editing.

Genetically modified, cannibal tadpoles may be the solution to Australia’s nearly century-old invasive cane toad problem. According to researchers, removing a single gene that controls ...

A narrow patch of land stands between the invasive species and the Pilbara – 27 million hectares where native species thrive. A new program taking aim at the cane toads’ Achilles heel.

Bufotenine, the hallucinogenic component of the toad venom, is a controlled substance that is legally in the same class as things like LSD and is therefore outlawed in many places. There have been ...

A tragic toad When about a hundred cane toads were first brought from Hawaii to Australia in 1935, people had high hopes that the amphibians would feast on the beetles damaging the local sugarcane ...

“Lights attract moths, beetles, other insects and invertebrates, and the cane toads feed on those,” Johnson said. And when you do see a cane toad, kill it.

In 1935, 102 cane toads were introduced to combat the greyback cane beetle. By 2010, that number had ballooned to 1.5 billion toads spread over 386,100 square miles, and they show no signs of ...

Thousands of cane toad eggs have been found on Castaways Beach near Noosa Heads, with a concerned resident posting photos to a community noticeboard. “If you go for a walk along our creeks, and ...

Thousands of cane toad eggs have been found on Castaways Beach near Noosa Heads, with a concerned resident posting photos to a community noticeboard. “If you go for a walk along our creeks, and ...