If you see a cane toad, you are asked to catch it and kill it ... by refrigerating it for 24 hours and then putting it in the freezer for another 24 hours.
I find it more efficient to trap and remove the tadpoles. There is a manufactured bait available for the traps but a newly dead toads works well too. I just donated a freezer to the local Toad Busters group. The freezer method works well for those who are a bit squeamish about hitting toads with a shovel or similar.
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Semi-permanent state of being Recreationally Outraged as a defence against boredom during lockdown.
.177 air rifle right between the eyes takes care of them. Licenced shooter, registered firearm.
I have a terrific air rifle bought as an Xmas present for me a few years back: Gamo Shadow 1000 = 1000fps .177 which I rate with similar damage characteristics to a rimfire 22 albeit at shorter range.
It's a great shame air rifles are classed as full firearms,I have little doubt we'd have far fewer small pests were they freely available.
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Oliver Cromwell, 3rd August 1650 - in a letter to the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland
Good smack with a heavy shovel or garden fork thru the middle of the skull.works for me.
Throw it/them out in the middle of the road, they're gone by morning.
Something is eating them, suspect crows.
We used to have busts every month in the wet season
Initially we used golf clubs but for some reason, people didnt like going home covered in blood and guts
We then went to a large garbage bin with a bin liner. Once ½ full, a hose was put inside the top and co2 was pumped in. they died very quickly
The cost of co2 made us move to the fridge/freezer method.
We used to get hundreds in a night.
dettol does very little and is expensive.
I remember spraying one across the head and 1/2 back. it hopped away only to emerge days later with a bleached head/back. he was called michael jackson and dies from contact with a golf club
There is no stopping them
There are several scientists who are developing methods to kill the tadpoles using traps with pheromones to attract them. This is working very well
When our 3 sons were young (10 - 15 years) they would dress up with their T-shirts on, which read not ghost busters but!!! TOAD BUSTERS inside a circle with the cancel stroke across it. Armed with torches and pieces of long steel spikes they would come back with their catch in a plastic bag and then placed in the freezer until the garbage pickup day.
While staying at Mary River retreat for a few days we woke up one morning to find a large cane toad swimming in the pool struggling to get out. On the paved area around the pool was a snake about a meter & a half long waiting for him to get out.
We had a case in Townsville a couple of years ago where a native killed an introduced pest - the native (a taipan) also died. The taipan bit the toad, the toad released its poison. Only the aquatic file snake found in Qld is unaffected by the toad's poison.
When I mentioned the caravan parks above, the roads (often quite large) just sit in the light outside of the facilities waiting for insects. I generally stand on their backs, grab hold of a back toe & give them a rapid swing or two on to the ground - that's all it takes for them to die.
Both whistling & black kites have learnt how to turn them over & eat their bellies out.
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