Originally Posted by canyoncreek
esshup, Just like that today on a very nice warm day today the pond and nearby lanes to the woods are buzzing with toads coming, going, sunning, swimming, or in some way all doing their thing.

As I walked around the pond I wondered to myself is LMB eat the mating toads too? I have no LMB in my pond but for those pondowners who have large mouthed predators, aren't the toads easy picking by the larger LMB or are they left alone while mating?


The toads have a glands right behind their head that secrete a milky white substance that deters many things from eating them.

https://naturallycuriouswithmaryholland.wordpress.com/2017/07/05/american-toad-parotoid-glands/

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