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One toad can eat up to 1000 insects and garden pests
each day, including beetles, cutworms, flies,
grashoppers, gypsy moths, sow bugs, pill bugs,
centipedes, slugs, and snails. They won't eat
your flowers or vegetables, though.
Provide toads with still water (in a shallow dish or
pool), a pesticide free environment and a shady shelter over damp
leaves or mulch, like our toad house.
Toads generally stay in one area for their entire
lives if it provides for their needs. They hibernate in the
winter. Toads may live for up to 10 years or more in the wild.
Our toad houses are made of stoneware clay
with details added by hand, including maple leaf cutouts on the roof
and a welcome sign over the door. They may be left out all
year in all weather. In fact, if a toad adopts it, it may very
well hibernate underneath the mulch in the house.
For more information on toads, search the web or
contact your local wildlife organization.
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