This is brilliant for areas with cane toads! So much easier to reduce their numbers in tadpole stage instead of having to catch them when they've grown up. Thanks for sharing.
I cooled two adult cane toads in the fridge. Then froze them about 8 hours. Then buried them in the garden. Checked the next day- one had resurrected himself and dug his way out. 24 hours freezing is minimum now.
I'm curious, what kind of farm do you have and how do you collect the toads and make their poison safe from other animals? I don't know much about cane toads & it's poison & am interested in learning about them.
This is such good news! I live on a community and I will let other members know about this. Maybe the community will buy a few to put in the creek and the dams. Thanks for sharing this. Happy New Year to you all.
I am not sure if you realise. But new videos on cane toads haven't been made in a long time. About time. This is a niche but this trap should be common knowledge.
One wee problem with this trap. I have three small ponds where I have had the qld common striped marsh frogs breeding for over 24 years. These native tiny frogs eat cane toad eggs as soon as they are laid and there have never been any baby toads in my garden. As they love the eggs they may be attracted to the chemical lure. My frogs also consume mosquito eggs so no larvae in my ponds. Nature always finds a way!
I thought the cane toad was toxic at every stage of their lives including eggs and killing whatever eats it unless your marsh frogs have evolved a way as some creatures have.
Whats great about this trap is the simple design. All plastic, only 2 parts. Easy to understand & cheap to manufacture. The trap user only needs a cheap net & a rock. If you want lots of people to use something, its important to not over engineer it. If its too complicated, people will lose intrest or just not use it. Bravo!👏🏼 Well designed
I had a discussion about the cane toad in Australia, and about invasive species in general. Some people seem to think that certain bird species in Australia have miraculously "learned" how to wash and eat the cane toads, as if that would solve the issue even if it were true. Nevertheless I noticed that people can get angry when you point out that they are spreading an invasive species. I was pointing out to a few people that they were spreading an invasive plant species here in Europe, the prickly pear, which was also a big issue in Australia. But people just don't seem to care. It isn't bothering them, so they do not see the problem, not even when I explained what the problems are.
Crows have been observed flipping cane toads over and eating their soft parts out : With that estimate of 2 billion cane toads, there aren't enough hungry crows to make a meaningful difference ..😢
Using a dead adult toad as bait also seems to work well to lure toad tadpoles and not frog tadpoles. Easy to make a trap out of a plastic container and a funnel.
With that many, they are obviously coming from somewhere. Consider asking your local wildlife expert & start setting up a trap or two. Together, we can make a real difference.
These traps are fantastic but they should be a government initiative and given out to people in affected areas for free. Most people don’t have $100 to spend on cane toad traps.
Are the adult toads more active during the day, or night? What other animal behaviours occur? Do they migrate only during high humidity over land? If the tadpoles rarely come up to breathe, perhaps a natural oil barrier like tea tree oil in the water might affect them? Is there a critical size of when they are able to reproduce? Do they have a mating season? What methods do they use to signal to a mate?
Once they've been killed by freezing you can do anything you want; some comments here mention adding to farm animal feed for protein, and I imagine they can be biodigested to create fertiliser
Before even watching this video, I wish to have said what I have been saying for over a decade about this: how hard can it be to make a tiny robot with a camera with a database attached to recognise and zap, burn, depose of or have a secondary vehicle collect pests? Surely the tech is cheap enough?
These things are prolific. On a one acre block, nowhere near water and with very few hiding places, I culled over 50 toads in one session. And there was still more after that.
I heard about this on my kids school excursion in 2018 while it was being developed, bought one as soon as I saw it was commercially available. Used it in my dam but I caught hardly any (maybe 40 total across 2 attempts) despite seeing heaps in the water. I used it as depicted. The toad tadpoles did not seem interested. (I'm sure they were cane toad ones). Not sure why it didn't work for me. Open to any suggestions!
Same thing happened in my pond. I think this trap needs to be placed close to a large batch of tadpole. In my case despite being thousands of them, they were spread out across the pond. I imagine it would have been the same in your dam.
I'm sure it's because a minority would keep & breed them to get the $ which would make more work and undermine the purpose of eradication, the same as trafficking or illegal breeding of animals. Plus the Qld Government would have to set aside money for this and won't since people are doing it for free as volunteers. PS: Vic's Container Deposit Scheme to recycle cans & bottles was only introduced late 2023 even though every dwelling has a recycle bin that's picked up every fortnight that we can put our cans/bottles into.
The QLD government should create a full time payed service, like a branch of the council who’s job it is to eradicate cane toads. They have the audacity to pay fire ant helicopters! To fly around looking for ants! But they won’t pay a full time contingent to eradicate cane toads. It was their fault! Why should we have to pay to get traps to fix it ourselves?
Exactly, I contacted my local council and they weren't interested in becoming involved or spending the money on an actual threat to the environment, yet they have pumped so much money into the fire ant poison
The Queensland Premier and Minister for Agriculture, along with local cane growers and the Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations (BSES), pressured Prime Minister Joseph Lyons to rescind the ban on cane toads in Australia in 1936. The toads were then released in Queensland's sugar cane regions. Was the PM really pressured or paid, we don't know, only blaming each other.
Great idea but having to fork out $75 for a trap plus shipping is a little steep for a “not for profit” organisation. I understand they need to cover costs, but that’s over the top as most people won’t pay that much. The local councils should also step up and free issue these traps.
A common misunderstanding. 'Not for profit' doesn't mean they don't want to make money. It just means they will keep all the surplus income, over the cost of good sold, for themselves, and pay no tax as they haven't made a profit.
@@neilfrasersmith That is not true. Non profits can make a profit, but they have to put all the profits back into whatever they are doing. They can't use the money to enrich themselves. Very often organizations like this do a lot more activities, such as education programs, but they also do a lot of research, and cane toads are not the only invasive species.
So who is going to fund the manufacture and research? Do you expect this young woman to work for no pay and dip into her own pocket to have them made? More to the point why is the government not serious about eradicating them?
She wasn't even born then, how was it her fault? Or perhaps you are blaming her charity, which was set up after the release to counter said release. How you are blaming them is beyond me.
@@hankjones3527 if you follow the context I was replying to the previous comment that suggested the (QLD) government pay as the original decision to release these pests was their bright idea.
The chemicals are scents given off by cane toad eggs. Reducing the number of cane toads with traps would reduce the number of cane toad eggs in the water giving off this scent.
I'm sure you would say that about the European rabbits too but they indirectly affect everyone since they destroy crops and land, while cane toads are poisonous to most animals including our pets. The cane toads will cause a negative chain of events throughout the Aust wildlife, especially if they continue to migrate.
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This is brilliant for areas with cane toads! So much easier to reduce their numbers in tadpole stage instead of having to catch them when they've grown up. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
I cooled two adult cane toads in the fridge. Then froze them about 8 hours.
Then buried them in the garden. Checked the next day- one had resurrected himself and dug his way out.
24 hours freezing is minimum now.
They can survive 23 hours in the freezer?
Wow. That’s incredible.
😂
70 thousand eggs per year per toad.
A good source of blood and bone in SE QLD since 1995 on our farm.
I'm curious, what kind of farm do you have and how do you collect the toads and make their poison safe from other animals? I don't know much about cane toads & it's poison & am interested in learning about them.
This is such good news! I live on a community and I will let other members know about this. Maybe the community will buy a few to put in the creek and the dams. Thanks for sharing this. Happy New Year to you all.
Thanks! Yes, please share with your community☺️
I am not sure if you realise. But new videos on cane toads haven't been made in a long time. About time. This is a niche but this trap should be common knowledge.
I saw some a few years ago even using dead toads the toadpoles will cannibalize them but this system is more convenient with the bait.
Absolutely wonderful. I can't be more enthusiastic.
One wee problem with this trap. I have three small ponds where I have had the qld common striped marsh frogs breeding for over 24 years. These native tiny frogs eat cane toad eggs as soon as they are laid and there have never been any baby toads in my garden. As they love the eggs they may be attracted to the chemical lure. My frogs also consume mosquito eggs so no larvae in my ponds. Nature always finds a way!
I thought the cane toad was toxic at every stage of their lives including eggs and killing whatever eats it unless your marsh frogs have evolved a way as some creatures have.
@@janicefleming4941 I just searched it & you are correct.
She did also say, you start by identifying that you are, in fact, dealing with cane toad tadpoles.
Fantastic work, well done 👏✔️
Whats great about this trap is the simple design. All plastic, only 2 parts. Easy to understand & cheap to manufacture. The trap user only needs a cheap net & a rock. If you want lots of people to use something, its important to not over engineer it. If its too complicated, people will lose intrest or just not use it. Bravo!👏🏼 Well designed
Me and all my neighbours would love them. There’s like 15 dams in a small area and a creek that all of our dams flow into in flood.
My neighbour & I.
😂@@grahamjohnbarr
That’s how you say it if your stralian
It would be great if you had a link to where people can get the trap. 😞
Google ‘Watergum Cane Toad Trap’
I love this!
Incredible!
In Townsville we used to go with a torch and pet food bag at night fill it half freeze the put in bin. Took a while but cut numbers considerably
I had a discussion about the cane toad in Australia, and about invasive species in general. Some people seem to think that certain bird species in Australia have miraculously "learned" how to wash and eat the cane toads, as if that would solve the issue even if it were true. Nevertheless I noticed that people can get angry when you point out that they are spreading an invasive species. I was pointing out to a few people that they were spreading an invasive plant species here in Europe, the prickly pear, which was also a big issue in Australia. But people just don't seem to care. It isn't bothering them, so they do not see the problem, not even when I explained what the problems are.
Crows have been observed flipping cane toads over and eating their soft parts out : With that estimate of 2 billion cane toads, there aren't enough hungry crows to make a meaningful difference ..😢
This is amazing! Great video. Councils should also get on board and help subsidise this for local communities
I just contacted my council and they said no :( so disappointing
Using a dead adult toad as bait also seems to work well to lure toad tadpoles and not frog tadpoles. Easy to make a trap out of a plastic container and a funnel.
We don't have any water near us but have a gazzilion adults.
So many, that you can't see the ground.
With that many, they are obviously coming from somewhere. Consider asking your local wildlife expert & start setting up a trap or two. Together, we can make a real difference.
These traps are fantastic but they should be a government initiative and given out to people in affected areas for free. Most people don’t have $100 to spend on cane toad traps.
Plenty of youtube vids out there how to make your own. They just chuck a dead toad in there for bait, apparently only attracts Toadpoles not frogs!
The govt created this problem. They should foot the bill for solving it and distribute these traps free.
You forgot 1 thing. They get their money from you, so either way you lose.😂
Under 20 y.o.?
OK!
Hawaii did the same unscientific introduction of cane toads to their islands.
And Fiji :(
We're really not all that smart are we😢
@@hankjones3527 we're plenty smart, we're just not that wise. Intelligent fools.
Are the adult toads more active during the day, or night? What other animal behaviours occur? Do they migrate only during high humidity over land? If the tadpoles rarely come up to breathe, perhaps a natural oil barrier like tea tree oil in the water might affect them? Is there a critical size of when they are able to reproduce? Do they have a mating season? What methods do they use to signal to a mate?
that's great but also maybe some really good fertiliser there for the garden or another use ?
Once they've been killed by freezing you can do anything you want; some comments here mention adding to farm animal feed for protein, and I imagine they can be biodigested to create fertiliser
@@Zaihanisme If the tadpoles carry the same toxins the toads do one could have some problems . If they are toxin free . yeah sure
@@Zaihanisme Would their poison harm the farm animals though? Their poison can kill anything that eats them
Good work
Fantastic!
Would be great if the QLD gov got onboard
I just contacted my local council and they aren't interested in putting any resources into it :(
@oasisofzen7811 may I ask what council this was?
It does work though only to a degree. I still found myself scooping lots of them with a hand net.
Before even watching this video, I wish to have said what I have been saying for over a decade about this: how hard can it be to make a tiny robot with a camera with a database attached to recognise and zap, burn, depose of or have a secondary vehicle collect pests?
Surely the tech is cheap enough?
The version for unwanted, undesireable humans is already being tested in Ukraine.
@@paulg3012 You misspelled Palestine.
These things are prolific. On a one acre block, nowhere near water and with very few hiding places, I culled over 50 toads in one session. And there was still more after that.
I heard about this on my kids school excursion in 2018 while it was being developed, bought one as soon as I saw it was commercially available. Used it in my dam but I caught hardly any (maybe 40 total across 2 attempts) despite seeing heaps in the water. I used it as depicted. The toad tadpoles did not seem interested. (I'm sure they were cane toad ones). Not sure why it didn't work for me. Open to any suggestions!
Same thing happened in my pond. I think this trap needs to be placed close to a large batch of tadpole. In my case despite being thousands of them, they were spread out across the pond. I imagine it would have been the same in your dam.
Well done. Genius
We have a cash a can system.Why can't we have a cash a toad system?Pretty simple to the workout
Because they get paid to recycle cans and bottles. Toads can’t be recycled 😂
@jonnypace4655 fertilizer
I'm sure it's because a minority would keep & breed them to get the $ which would make more work and undermine the purpose of eradication, the same as trafficking or illegal breeding of animals. Plus the Qld Government would have to set aside money for this and won't since people are doing it for free as volunteers.
PS: Vic's Container Deposit Scheme to recycle cans & bottles was only introduced late 2023 even though every dwelling has a recycle bin that's picked up every fortnight that we can put our cans/bottles into.
The QLD government should create a full time payed service, like a branch of the council who’s job it is to eradicate cane toads. They have the audacity to pay fire ant helicopters! To fly around looking for ants!
But they won’t pay a full time contingent to eradicate cane toads. It was their fault! Why should we have to pay to get traps to fix it ourselves?
Exactly, I contacted my local council and they weren't interested in becoming involved or spending the money on an actual threat to the environment, yet they have pumped so much money into the fire ant poison
This is amazing. But I never knew there were that many wild cane toads. How depressing
The Queensland Premier and Minister for Agriculture, along with local cane growers and the Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations (BSES), pressured Prime Minister Joseph Lyons to rescind the ban on cane toads in Australia in 1936. The toads were then released in Queensland's sugar cane regions.
Was the PM really pressured or paid, we don't know, only blaming each other.
Great idea but having to fork out $75 for a trap plus shipping is a little steep for a “not for profit” organisation. I understand they need to cover costs, but that’s over the top as most people won’t pay that much. The local councils should also step up and free issue these traps.
A common misunderstanding. 'Not for profit' doesn't mean they don't want to make money. It just means they will keep all the surplus income, over the cost of good sold, for themselves, and pay no tax as they haven't made a profit.
@@neilfrasersmith That is not true. Non profits can make a profit, but they have to put all the profits back into whatever they are doing. They can't use the money to enrich themselves. Very often organizations like this do a lot more activities, such as education programs, but they also do a lot of research, and cane toads are not the only invasive species.
Living in a rural area we have to pay shipping on so many things ---- I am sure the high charges for shipping is an easy way for higher profits.
I hope Florida looks into this, they have taken over south and central Florida.
How long do the adults live?
I wish there was a way to deal with obnoxious road toads.
If these guys were serious about eradicating Cane Toads, they would be offering their lures for free and not charging $105 for a kit.
So who is going to fund the manufacture and research? Do you expect this young woman to work for no pay and dip into her own pocket to have them made?
More to the point why is the government not serious about eradicating them?
@@scrapbagstudios since it was their fault in the first place!
We always end up funding their fcu ups n failures...they're useless at everything...
She wasn't even born then, how was it her fault? Or perhaps you are blaming her charity, which was set up after the release to counter said release. How you are blaming them is beyond me.
@@hankjones3527 if you follow the context I was replying to the previous comment that suggested the (QLD) government pay as the original decision to release these pests was their bright idea.
Ummm… the Gardening Australia web site has absolutely nothing about how to acquire this ….. hint : maybe a link would be a good idea
How can people request a trap?
I prefer my golf club 😅
should have had hot water..
I miss Peter Cundall, no such useless nonsense from him
The initial release was based on scientific endeavour I read.
"Turbal country"
Isn't that a bit silly and childish?
Is anyone else sceptical about releasing these chemical compounds into our water sources?
The chemicals are scents given off by cane toad eggs. Reducing the number of cane toads with traps would reduce the number of cane toad eggs in the water giving off this scent.
The chemicals are already there but in smaller quantities from the tadpoles & slightly higher from the grown cane toads.
I’m not convinced that cane toads are actually a problem. They don’t bother me.
I'm sure you would say that about the European rabbits too but they indirectly affect everyone since they destroy crops and land, while cane toads are poisonous to most animals including our pets. The cane toads will cause a negative chain of events throughout the Aust wildlife, especially if they continue to migrate.