We were experiencing a Junebug shortage here until last week when the rain brought them out. The dogs eat the bugs in the back yard, and the toads have all moved around to the side of the house (where the dogs can't pick them up and carry them around) and eat Junebugs under the porchlight.

A fine entertainment here is to position ourselves a little way back from the step by that door and catch Junebugs and toss them toward the toads. We have four of them (at last count) that have inhabited a loosely walled-in area I built last year. That door is where the garage door used to be, so the pots are on top of an old driveway section, and the low wall keeps the sun off of the pots of a couple of dozen plants that dried out too fast in the direct sun. When you walk out the door you hear small critters scrambling in there. Some of them are toads. Considering that the backyard habitat next to the house has been compromised by canines, it seems the least we can do to give an alternative space. And those toads are great to watch--they make a little move then the bug is gone--the tongues are so quick I don't think I've ever actually seen that part.

Good for you, Bobert, in accomodating the critters on the land.

SRS