Anaxyrus fowleri
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Anaxyrus fowleri, Fowler's toad, is a species of toad in the family Bufonidae. The species is native to North America, where it occurs in much of the eastern United States and parts of adjacent Canada
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Fowler's toad in leaf litter
In Missouri Ozarks
Velvet ant
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Velvet ants are a family of more than 7,000 species of wasps whose wingless females resemble large, hairy ants. Their common name velvet ant refers to their resemblance to an ant, and their dense pile
Anaxyrus fowleri
…terrestrial invertebrates, but avoids earthworms, unlike its close relative, the American toad (Anaxyrus americanus). This toad also has been shown to eat velvet ants, which is a wasp that gives a very painful sting to humans, but does nothing to the toad. The tadpole scrapes algae and bacterial mats from rocks and…
Velvet ants female various Dasymutilla
Mating pair
A female eastern velvet ant
Proposed higher classification of Mutillidae