Toads
Bufo spp.— Toads are nocturnal — they sleep during the day and feed at night. One toad can eat as many as 50 to 100 insects at a time. That’s as many as 3,000 bugs per month! A toad’s diet includes mosquitoes and their larvae, flies, slugs and cutworms, to name just a few.

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Yes, I believe we are getting too much rain. As I was examining my pots of flowers, and hosta beds in search of the dreaded slugs, who are eating holes in the leaves of my hosta, I found my plants are too wet. We have had a lot of rain during the past three months. Just take a ride in the country and you will find rows of corn and soybeans standing in water. The urban streams are high and muddy. I can't  even imagine the feeling a farmer gets when he look at the fields, especially the low land. This is the third year in a row that we have had a abundance of rain in June.

Do you know that certain bugs are good for your garden. I know that toads are not bugs but if any one has some extra, I will take them. Toads eat slugs. That is all I need to know. Right now I am sure that the slugs are having a feast on my hosta. Very faithfully, every morning I take a walk around my yard and the first thing I do is pick up rolled newspaper, that I put out the night before, and dump it in a plastic bag. When daylight comes, slugs hide and there is nothing they like better than to crawl into a dark, damp place and sleep the day away.