Pictures of Chinese big toad

Executive summary: Bufo sinensis burrows in the soil, or lives under rocks and grass; lives in grass, rocks or soil holes, climbs out at dusk to hunt. The laying season varies from place to place, and the eggs are staggered in four rows within the egg band of the tubular colloid. The eggs are wrapped around the aquatic plants and each egg lays 2000-8000 eggs. Adult toads hibernate in underwater soil or rotten grass. Its tadpoles like to swim in groups in the same direction.

Bufo sinensis burrows in the soil, or lives under rocks and grass; lives in grass, rocks or soil caves, climbs out at dusk to hunt. The laying season varies from place to place, and the eggs are staggered in four rows within the tubular-gelatinous egg belt. The eggs are wrapped around the aquatic plants and each egg lays 2000-8000 eggs. Adult toads hibernate in underwater soil or rotten grass. Its tadpoles like to swim in groups in the same direction. In winter, it is mostly in the bottom mud. Hiding during the day, going out at night or in the rain. It feeds on snails, slugs, ants, beetles and moths.

Habits of Bufo sinensis

Bufo sinensis belongs to amphibious reptiles, wet, dark, warm. During the day inhabits in the river, grass, masonry holes and other dark and humid places, evening to morning often in the pond edge, ditch edge, river bank, field edge, vegetable garden, roadside or around the house foraging, most active at night and after rain, mainly to snails, slugs, ants, mosquitoes, tsetters, locusts, earthworms, scarabs, mole crickets, flies and a variety of phototactic moth butterflies for food. When the temperature drops below 10℃, drill into masonry holes, earth holes or dive into the bottom of the water for hibernation. The temperature rises to above 10℃ to end hibernation, and it is active in shallow water or shore on the sunny side of the pool.

Reproductive Mode of Bufo garizans

Bufo garizans is dioecious, fertilized in vitro, lives in water before metamorphosis, and lives mainly on land after metamorphosis. Most of the breeding season is in spring, when the water temperature reaches more than 12℃, mating and laying eggs in still water or small stream water plants. Eggs are black and arranged in double rows in egg sacs.

Distribution of Bufo garizans in China

Bufo garizans is widely distributed and abundant in various habitats at different altitudes. It is not only the natural enemy of crops, pastures and forest pests, but also the drug source of toad venom.

1. Domestic distribution: It is distributed in Northeast China, North China, East China, Central China, Northwest China and Southwest China.

2, foreign distribution: foreign distribution in Russia, North Korea, etc.