Traditional Practices in Agriculture FULL - ANGOC Site
Traditional Practices in Agriculture FULL - ANGOC Site
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Snakes<br />
Toads<br />
TOADS & SNAKES & Spiders<br />
eat <strong>in</strong>sects and other garden<br />
pests. Toads eat as many as<br />
10,000 <strong>in</strong>sects and other pests<br />
<strong>in</strong> three months, <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g<br />
cutworms, slugs, crickets, ants,<br />
caterpillars and squash bugs.<br />
Birds<br />
BIRDS: - Some birds are<br />
omnivorous. Some examples<br />
from the Temperate zone<br />
provides a good illustration of<br />
what birds eat. A house wren<br />
feeds 500 spiders and<br />
caterpillars to her young <strong>in</strong> one<br />
afternoon; a brown trasher<br />
consumes 6,000 <strong>in</strong>sects a day; a<br />
chickadee eats 138,000canker<br />
worm eggs <strong>in</strong> 25 days; and, a<br />
pair of flickers eats 5,000 ants<br />
as snack.
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