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This Wisconsin amphibian is your backyard’s secret weapon: how the common toad fights off unwanted garden pests

(WFRV) – It’s Amphibian Week, and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is hopping into celebration by spotlighting one of the state’s most helping, and often misunderstood, residents: the ...
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Toads are the garden’s heroes. Here’s how to help them thrive.

Last year, Cynthia Berger tried for an autumn spinach harvest in her Pennsville, Pa. garden. The pests got there first. “It was slug city,” says Berger. The slimy, shell-less mollusks turned the ...