Title: Reptiles and Amphibians Lauren Selders
1Reptiles and AmphibiansLauren Selders
2American Toad
- They eat a wide variety of insects and other
invertebrates, including snails, beetles, slugs,
and earthworms.
Polygynous. American toads breed from March to
July each year, depending on location. The male
toads establish territories and begin calling the
females.
3Bullfrog
eat just about anything they can fit in their
ample mouths, including insects, mice, fish,
birds, and snakes
May to July in the north and February to October
in the south. Polygyny. Fertilization is
external, with the females depositing as many as
20,000 eggs in a foamy film in quiet, protected
waters.
4Eastern Wood Frog
feeding on insects
The males move around the breeding area actively
searching for a female. Wood frogs breed once
yearly. March to May.
5Fowlers Toad
The adults eat insects and other small
terrestrial invertebrates, but shy away from
earthworms
6Gray Tree Frog
These guys eat the usual insect diet. Crickets,
moths, flies
7Green Frog
It eats insects, spiders, other tadpoles
8Northern Leopard Frog
a variety of invertebrates such as crickets, wax
worms, fly larvae, and earthworms.
9Pickerel Frog
Pickerel frogs consume insects, earthworms, and
other invertebrates
10Spring Peeper
Spring Peepers eat mostly small insects, such as
beetles, ants, and flies, as well as spiders.
11Western Chorus Frog
His diet consists of small invertebrates such as
flies, beetles, ants, spiders, leaf hoppers
12Northern Fence Lizard
- The fence lizard is diurnal and beneficial to
humans because of the insects they eat,
especially beetles. They also eat spiders,
centipedes and snails
13Five-lined Skink
- Five-lined skinks prey on a wide variety of
insects, spiders, and other invertebrates
14Eastern Newt
- Adult newts eat worms, insects, small crayfish
and other crustaceans, snails, mussels, tadpoles,
other amphibian larvae, amphibian eggs, and fish
eggs.
15Hellbender
- Crayfish and small fish are the main food items
consumed by Hellbenders
16Mud Puppy
- Feeds at night on fish, crayfish, aquatic
insects, worms, fish eggs they rely heavily upon
olfactory cues to find their prey.
17Red Salamander
- This salamander is a carnivore, feeding on small
insects, worms, and other invertebrates, and
occasionally smaller salamanders.
18Red-backed Salamander
- Red-backed salamanders feed on a large variety of
invertebrates. These include mites, spiders,
insects, centipedes, millipedes, beetles, snails,
ants, earthworms, flies, and larvae.
19Small-mouthed Salamander
- Adult small-mouth salamanders eat insects, other
arthropods, slugs, worms, and sometimes aquatic
crustaceans.
20Spotted Salamander
- Spotted salamanders eat invertebrates such as
earthworms and insects or anything else they can
catch and swallow.