Britain’s toads have begun their spring migration, putting them at even greater risk than usual. Here’s how – and why – we should look after them ...

Toads can eat 50 to 100 insects and other prey each night, or 10,000 in a growing season, including slugs, earwigs, Japanese beetles, cutworms, grasshoppers, sow bugs, snails, cucumber beetles, grubs ...

The American toad used to be a common sight in Pennsylvania. Due to habitat loss and environmental toxins, the population is drastically declining. Make a place for them in your garden as they are ...

The common toad is a rather rotund animal with short legs and an ungainly gait. It certainly doesn’t look like a good tree climber – yet citizen surveys suggest that common toads often climb trees to ...

Common toads, with their heavy-set bodies and short limbs, are regarded as typical terrestrial amphibians. “There is no shortage of papers on common toads; they are a very well-studied species,” says ...