Green toads are typically a green or yellow in color with black spotting and a cream colored underside. They are not a large toad, growing to 2 inches in length. They are nocturnal, and only readily found during and immediately after periods of rainfall, their habitat is semi-arid and often very dry. Whenever conditions are favorable, males will call to the females from a pool of water suitable for laying eggs in.
Ten Facts about Green Toad
- Growing to 2 inches in length.
- Voice sounds like a piercing cricketlike trill.
- Breeding occurs between march to september.
- If conditions are not favorable, breeding season may be skipped.
- They founds in the shelter of rocks in semiarid regions. Also found in prairies.
- Green tode, is a species of toad found in the Southwestern United States in the states of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas and Texas, as well as in northern Mexico in the states of Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosí, Durango and Zacatecas.
- They eat small insects, grasshoppers, spiders, ants, earthworms, fishes, lizards.
- Snakes, raccoons, birds, dogs, wild cats, skunks, are predators.
- They create a sound to attract females.
- A single egg clutch may consist of 1000 to 7000 eggs.
