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.
-- Edited by dorian on Tuesday 18th of January 2022 12:19:20 PM
Mike Harding said
12:28 PM Jan 18, 2022
You could use them instead of ice cubes; "Would you like a cane toad in your gin and tonic?"
dorian said
12:40 PM Jan 18, 2022
I remember in high school that laboratory frogs had their brains pithed.
Gundog said
03:52 PM Jan 18, 2022
I'm not gunna try and catch them, spray em with dettol that knocks them out for good.
Ivan 01 said
04:14 PM Jan 18, 2022
Yes why waste time and freezer space.
Hit them with the dettol, picking them up is not humane to humans.
They are just a pest.
Cassie63 said
04:42 PM Jan 18, 2022
My grandson goes round the yard with his dad spot lighting using one of those long picker uppers then places them in a bucket for a humane dose.
-- Edited by Cassie63 on Tuesday 18th of January 2022 04:42:59 PM
Warren-Pat_01 said
05:29 PM Jan 18, 2022
dorian,
I did that once until my wife found it had crawled out of the plastic bag - might have been looking for a blanket!
Bunnings used to sell something called "Hop Stop" - that knocks them for a six! Other than that, there are always "gravity tools" - it's quick!
Caravan parks where the lights are left on all night in the facilities in NQ, NT & Nthn WA are draw cards for the pest.
peter67 said
08:21 AM Jan 19, 2022
I always get the golf clubs out.
Rob Driver said
08:41 AM Jan 19, 2022
Warren-Pat_01 wrote:
dorian, I did that once until my wife found it had crawled out of the plastic bag - might have been looking for a blanket!
Bunnings used to sell something called "Hop Stop" - that knocks them for a six! Other than that, there are always "gravity tools" - it's quick!
Caravan parks where the lights are left on all night in the facilities in NQ, NT & Nthn WA are draw cards for the pest.
Nothing worse that finding a cane toad has claimed the toilet bowl in a caravan park.
It doesnt only happen in parks. I have a mate who lived in Bundaberg and he had a toilet on the back verandah.
I wandered out there one night and there was a toad in residence. This was many years ago when cane toads were rare that far south.
They certainly have spread since then.
granite53 said
11:02 AM Jan 19, 2022
.177 air rifle right between the eyes takes care of them. Licenced shooter, registered firearm.
Izabarack said
03:11 PM Jan 19, 2022
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.
Mike Harding said
03:51 PM Jan 19, 2022
granite53 wrote:
.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.
deverall11 said
05:14 PM Jan 19, 2022
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.
SoloMC said
05:38 PM Jan 19, 2022
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 ˝ 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
JayDee said
05:57 PM Jan 20, 2022
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.
Yes, we enjoyed sharing their youth.
jay&Dee
86GTS said
05:04 AM Jan 21, 2022
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.
rgren2 said
08:52 AM Jan 21, 2022
The snake would die if it ate the toad.
Warren-Pat_01 said
09:16 AM Jan 21, 2022
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.
Wizardofoz said
12:21 PM Jan 21, 2022
Both of my freezers are chock a block, so the old 3 iron will still be in use for sometime yet!
Izabarack said
03:09 PM Jan 21, 2022
rgren2 wrote:
The snake would die if it ate the toad.
A Keelback living in my frog pond has no problem with eating toads. Appears redbelly blacks around here can tolerate Toad Poision.
rgren2 said
04:41 PM Jan 21, 2022
Izabarack wrote:
rgren2 wrote:
The snake would die if it ate the toad.
A Keelback living in my frog pond has no problem with eating toads. Appears redbelly blacks around here can tolerate Toad Poision.
We dont have them here. I was commenting on the area.
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.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-18/cane-toad-bust-in-queensland-to-curb-spread-of-invasive-pest/100761278
-- Edited by dorian on Tuesday 18th of January 2022 12:19:20 PM
You could use them instead of ice cubes; "Would you like a cane toad in your gin and tonic?"
I'm not gunna try and catch them, spray em with dettol that knocks them out for good.
Hit them with the dettol, picking them up is not humane to humans.
They are just a pest.
My grandson goes round the yard with his dad spot lighting using one of those long picker uppers then places them in a bucket for a humane dose.
-- Edited by Cassie63 on Tuesday 18th of January 2022 04:42:59 PM
I did that once until my wife found it had crawled out of the plastic bag - might have been looking for a blanket!
Bunnings used to sell something called "Hop Stop" - that knocks them for a six! Other than that, there are always "gravity tools" - it's quick!
Caravan parks where the lights are left on all night in the facilities in NQ, NT & Nthn WA are draw cards for the pest.
Nothing worse that finding a cane toad has claimed the toilet bowl in a caravan park.
It doesnt only happen in parks. I have a mate who lived in Bundaberg and he had a toilet on the back verandah.
I wandered out there one night and there was a toad in residence. This was many years ago when cane toads were rare that far south.
They certainly have spread since then.
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.
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.
Throw it/them out in the middle of the road, they're gone by morning.
Something is eating them, suspect crows.
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 ˝ 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
Yes, we enjoyed sharing their youth.
jay&Dee
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.
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.
A Keelback living in my frog pond has no problem with eating toads. Appears redbelly blacks around here can tolerate Toad Poision.
We dont have them here.
I was commenting on the area.