Finally, we’ll end with an overview of the diet of baby toads. So, let’s hop into this discussion and answer the question, “What do toads eat?” What Do Toads Like to Eat?

Frogs and toads in the U.S. have some of the most eclectic diets imaginable. All adults are carnivorous, whereas tadpoles — the larval aquatic stage of development — are generally herbivorous.

By exposing native animals to less toxic baby cane toads, we can teach them not to eat the deadly adults. Cane toads were introduced to destroy sugar cane pests. Shutterstock ...

After South American cane toads were introduced to Australia in the 1930s to control pestilent beetles, they ravaged the country’s ecosystems—and their disruption continues today.These ...

Baby cane toads, like the ones affecting the Tugun residential complex, are also poisonous. Female cane toad can lay up to 25,000 eggs at a time.

Prevention. Cane toads are often found in yards during rainy, warm days, but you can help prevent encounters with pets by removing cane toad attractants and places where they might hide.

“Since cane toad tadpoles cannibalise cane toad eggs, they would be a terrific cane toad controller,” Rick says. “They also don’t eat the eggs of native frogs much at all and have almost no poison ...