American Toad

• alimentaciónIt can eat several thousand insects and other small invertebrates over a single summer, doing real work as a pest controller in gardens and allotments.
• A single American toad can eat more than ten thousand insects in a season, many of them garden pests, which makes it one of the most effective allies of pesticide-free gardening.
• Its call is a long, musical trill that can go on for more than half a minute without a break, and a chorus of males in spring can be heard from a considerable distance.
• It can live more than thirty years in captivity, an extraordinary lifespan for a garden amphibian, and shows a remarkable fidelity to the same refuge over the years.

Skeleton type

Vertebrate - internal bony skeleton (amphibian)

Habitat and environment

Woodland, meadows, vegetable plots and gardens of eastern North America

Sexual maturity

2.5 years

Gestation / incubation

8 days

Litter / clutch size

6,000

Sources consulted: Wikipedia (es): Anaxyrus americanus

The pins mark the parks where its presence is documented.