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In article <771Te.24000$FA3.12582@news-server.bigpond.net.au>, "Don H" <donlhumphries@bigpond.com> wrote:
>Seems an effective method of catching cane toads has been invented; uses
>ultraviolet black lights (which also attract insects) - see yesterday's
>"Herald Sun" (pg.13).   "As part of the Toad Buster project, researchers
>caught more than 200 cane toads in three weeks at Ringwood Station, 120km
>south of Darwin".

Jesus mate, get real!  They say there are already millions of the 
things in the NT.  Catching 10/night is going to have an impact?

I could get that many each night looking around the front yard with a 
torch.  Friends near here (but on the coast) catch that many a night 
in a small hole they dug under their yard light.  (I haven't seen that 
hole yet, but it was too small for a kookaburra to fly out of when the 
stupid bird got into it for some reason -- fortunately found in time.)

Frankly, I think the whole toad hysteria is a bit of a wank.  They've 
been around here for 70 years now, and nothing has been wiped out by 
them.

As a mate commented the other day about CSIRO research into the 
"problem" -- no one gave a stuff while they were only in Qld.  Now 
that they've got into States south and west it seems the sky's 
falling in and research money flows.

Cheers, Phred.

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