Reptiles and Amphibians Lauren Selders

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Reptiles and AmphibiansLauren Selders
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American Toad

• They eat a wide variety of insects and other
  invertebrates, including snails, beetles, slugs,
  and earthworms.

Polygynous. American toads breed from March to
July each year, depending on location. The male
toads establish territories and begin calling the
females.
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Bullfrog
eat just about anything they can fit in their
ample mouths, including insects, mice, fish,
birds, and snakes
May to July in the north and February to October
in the south. Polygyny. Fertilization is
external, with the females depositing as many as
20,000 eggs in a foamy film in quiet, protected
waters.
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Eastern Wood Frog
feeding on insects
The males move around the breeding area actively
searching for a female. Wood frogs breed once
yearly. March to May.
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Fowlers Toad
The adults eat insects and other small
terrestrial invertebrates, but shy away from
earthworms
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Gray Tree Frog
These guys eat the usual insect diet. Crickets,
moths, flies
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Green Frog
It eats insects, spiders, other tadpoles
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Northern Leopard Frog
a variety of invertebrates such as crickets, wax
worms, fly larvae, and earthworms.
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Pickerel Frog
Pickerel frogs consume insects, earthworms, and
other invertebrates
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Spring Peeper
Spring Peepers eat mostly small insects, such as
beetles, ants, and flies, as well as spiders.
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Western Chorus Frog
His diet consists of small invertebrates such as
flies, beetles, ants, spiders, leaf hoppers
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Northern Fence Lizard

• The fence lizard is diurnal and beneficial to
  humans because of the insects they eat,
  especially beetles. They also eat spiders,
  centipedes and snails

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Five-lined Skink

• Five-lined skinks prey on a wide variety of
  insects, spiders, and other invertebrates

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Eastern Newt

• Adult newts eat worms, insects, small crayfish
  and other crustaceans, snails, mussels, tadpoles,
  other amphibian larvae, amphibian eggs, and fish
  eggs.

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Hellbender

• Crayfish and small fish are the main food items
  consumed by Hellbenders

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Mud Puppy

• Feeds at night on fish, crayfish, aquatic
  insects, worms, fish eggs they rely heavily upon
  olfactory cues to find their prey.

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Red Salamander

• This salamander is a carnivore, feeding on small
  insects, worms, and other invertebrates, and
  occasionally smaller salamanders.

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Red-backed Salamander

• Red-backed salamanders feed on a large variety of
  invertebrates. These include mites, spiders,
  insects, centipedes, millipedes, beetles, snails,
  ants, earthworms, flies, and larvae.

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Small-mouthed Salamander

• Adult small-mouth salamanders eat insects, other
  arthropods, slugs, worms, and sometimes aquatic
  crustaceans.

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Spotted Salamander

• Spotted salamanders eat invertebrates such as
  earthworms and insects or anything else they can
  catch and swallow.