Since being introduced to Australia in 1935 to control a sugarcane beetle, the species has spread rapidly across the nation. Scientists says cane toads are evolving rapidly Cane toads threaten ...

Adult Syphraea uberabensis beetles feed on cane tibouchina. Studies showed that the plant struggled to grow back after an attack by the beetles. Lon Bulgrin photo A Brazilian beetle with an ...

the cane beetle, and then turned into a nuisance themselves. But the water rats in the north of Australia are native animals and apparently super smart. They dissect the cane toads before they eat ...

in 1935 to exterminate cane beetles (Dermolepida albohirtum) that were ravaging newly planted sugarcane crops. However, this effort backfired, because cane toads showed no interest in the beetles ...

Guttural Toads, native to mainland Africa, were deliberately introduced from Durban to Mauritius in 1922 in an attempt to biocontrol the cane beetle, and from there moved to Réunion in 1927 ...

Adult Syphraea uberabensis beetles feed on cane tibouchina. Studies showed that the plant struggled to grow back after an attack by the beetles. Lon Bulgrin photo Starting with high-density areas ...