Sentences with phrase «toad lungworm»

The Magnificent Tree Frog easily takes up the toad lungworm and dies.

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All of the lungworms that we have found in Australian cane toads so far are Rhabdias pseudosphaerocephala - a South American species!

Ligia's special interest is the relationship between toads, native frogs, and the small lungworms that can infect both types of animals.

Crystal infected baby toads in the laboratory, and found that the lungworm was devastating for the tiny animals - about 30 % died, and the remainder grew more slowly, moved more slowly, and so on.

So, although it was our own research that suggested lungworm parasites could help in controlling toads, we now know that it won't work, and will cause problems for native frogs.

This would make it difficult to use the lungworms to control toads - because if we made the worms more common or more infective, we'd cause problems for native frogs as well.

If it can't, we may have a possible control for toads — by spreading the lungworm around to places it doesn't occur, and perhaps trying to build up its numbers in places where toads breed.

Not every good idea pays off, and the idea of using lungworms to control cane toads is now consigned to the dustbin of history.