Posts filed under Herps

11/09

Garden Snakes Are Your Friends

I like snakes. Snakes eat things I don’t like so we tend to get along just fine. I have no rats, mice, overabundance of crickets, leaf hoppers or slugs. What I do have is an indigo snake, rat snakes, crowned snakes, a hognose snake and the pride of my habitat, a king snake. Yesterday I …

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10/09

Make a Toad Abode Pebble Tufa Toad House

Make a toad abode. Simple tufa pebble toad house for garden habitats

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10/09

Make a Tufa Toad Cave Toad House

When creating a backyard habitat, don’t forget the toad! Every garden needs a toad or two to help keep the bug population down. Toads can eat thousands of insects from a vegetable garden or flower bed. If you want to attract frogs or toads, the first thing you must do is not spray pesticides! Frogs …

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