Word: bufo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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State pest-controllers are mobilizing against the marching marauders, but they face an uphill fight. Achatina, whose body can grow as long as a foot, has so few natural enemies that it can roam almost anywhere. Plagued by other recent invaders-the Bufo toad from Central America and the Asian walking catfish-Florida biologists are reluctant to import any anti-snail predators, such as the India glowworm, the hermit crab, or even more Bufos, which are known to feed on the young snails. Instead, they have begun careful spraying with insecticide (granules of metaldehyde mixed with tricalcium arsenide...
...accident or design, man seems de ermined to upset the delicate balance of nature in Florida. The water hyacinth, imported by a flower lover in 1884, has clogged canals all over the southern end of the peninsula. Clearing operations cost more than $1,000,000 annually. The 30-in. Bufo toad (Bufo marinus), introduced to the Miami area in the 1950s to eat insects, now feeds on the young of native toads, and hundreds of dogs have died after biting into the Bufo's poisonous neck sacks...