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Table 50: Diet of newly metamorphosed Bufo bufo (Kuzmin 1997)
Age Sex Food type Relative
abundance
(%)
Amphibians and pesticides
SD/SE N Country Habitat Notes
Juvenile - Acarina 65.1 - 12 Russia - Newly metamorphosed (Stage 46). A further 6 stomachs were empty.
Juvenile - Collembola 20.6 - 12 Russia - Newly metamorphosed (Stage 46) . A further 6 stomachs were empty.
Juvenile - Other taxa 14.3 - 12 Russia - Newly metamorphosed (Stage 46) . A further 6 stomachs were empty.
Table 51: Size of food items consumed by Bufo bufo in the UK (Gittins 1987).
Age Sex Food type Season Number Mean length Min. Max. Country Habitat Notes
of items (mm) (mm) (mm)
Adult/Juvenile M/F Oligochaeta All year 4 16.8 3 40 UK Lake Data from 161 stomachs
Adult/Juvenile M/F Pulmonata All year 8 3.0 2 4 UK Lake Data from 161 stomachs
Adult/Juvenile M/F Isopoda All year 13 7.9 2 15 UK Lake Data from 161 stomachs
Adult/Juvenile M/F Diplopoda All year 40 13.2 5 32 UK Lake Data from 161 stomachs
Adult/Juvenile M/F Chilopoda All year 12 13.6 4 31 UK Lake Data from 161 stomachs
Adult/Juvenile M/F Collembola All year 40 3.9 2 9 UK Lake Data from 161 stomachs
Adult/Juvenile M/F Heteroptera All year 12 4.2 2 7 UK Lake Data from 161 stomachs
Adult/Juvenile M/F Lepidoptera All year 16 11.8 3 23 UK Lake Data from 161 stomachs
Adult/Juvenile M/F Diptera All year 30 3.8 1 9 UK Lake Data from 161 stomachs
Adult/Juvenile M/F Hymenoptera (Formicoidea) All year 18 4.8 3 6 UK Lake Data from 161 stomachs
Adult/Juvenile M/F Coleoptera All year 170 5.9 2 18 UK Lake Data from 161 stomachs
Adult/Juvenile M/F Coleoptera larvae All year 13 9.2 4 21 UK Lake Data from 161 stomachs
Adult/Juvenile M/F Aranea All year 43 4.6 1 11 UK Lake Data from 161 stomachs
Adult/Juvenile M/F Opiliones All year 17 2.6 2 6 UK Lake Data from 161 stomachs
Adult/Juvenile M/F Acari All year 33 1.5 1 5 UK Lake Data from 161 stomachs
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