Techniques of picking clothes and scraping crisps for captive toads

Toads are distributed throughout the country. From late spring to late autumn, they often lurk among grass and crops during the day, or under stones and earth holes around houses and dry land. At dusk, they often crawl on roadsides and grasslands for food. Slow and clumsy, not good at jumping, swimming, can only crawl.

At the end of autumn and early winter, adults enter the water and overwinter under rotten grass, silt and stones at the bottom of the water. Breeding begins in late winter and early spring. During the spawning period, male and female individuals hold each other in water or on the shore, male toads are carried on the back of female toads, female toads crawl and lay eggs at the bottom of water for more than 10 hours, and male toads leave only after female toads have laid eggs. Spawning time is mostly in rainy days or at night when it turns clear after rain. Eggs are laid at the edge of shallow ponds or in ditches with lots of humus.

It takes about 2 months to change from laying eggs to young toads, and the abnormal young toads can be seen in the middle and early April. The main food are locusts, mole cricket, ground tiger, beetle, cabbage caterpillar, ants, snails, ladybugs, earthworms and so on. Artificial captivity can be selected from vegetable fields, orchards, ponds, deserted beaches, forests and other wild natural sites. After a 50 cm high purse seine is surrounded by gauze nets, it can be kept captive. No need to invest in special facilities. Toad not only in the ecological good vegetable fields, orchards safely spend the hot summer, but also played a role in using toads to eat insects biological insecticidal effect, fruits and vegetables can not use pesticides, kill two birds with one stone. It's cheaper to trap insects with lights.

Toads without toad clothing are scraped and put into a breeding farm with water and grass. Generally, they do not need to be fed. If the number is large, insects such as earthworms and mealworms can be provided. Captive 1 mu, strip scrape crisp benefit several thousand yuan. Because toads can be caught locally, less investment is required. If toad-free areas were to import seed sources from other places, it would not be worth it.