12-27-2006, 01:35 PM
The military is being asked to battle the cane toad in Australia.
Article in Reuters: http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyid=2006-12-27T061406Z_01_SYD124033_RTRUKOC_0_US-AUSTRALIA-TOADS.xml
"The toads, introduced in a batch of 101 FROM HAWAII in 1935 in a failed bid to control native cane beetles, have spread 3,000 km (1,900 miles) from northeast Queensland to Darwin in Australia's tropical north. There are now more than 200 million."
If they are the same toads I staked when I was growing up on Oahu, they ARE nasty little buggas.
Article in Reuters: http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyid=2006-12-27T061406Z_01_SYD124033_RTRUKOC_0_US-AUSTRALIA-TOADS.xml
"The toads, introduced in a batch of 101 FROM HAWAII in 1935 in a failed bid to control native cane beetles, have spread 3,000 km (1,900 miles) from northeast Queensland to Darwin in Australia's tropical north. There are now more than 200 million."
If they are the same toads I staked when I was growing up on Oahu, they ARE nasty little buggas.
Larry