Reptiles and Amphibians Lauren Selders

1. Reptiles and AmphibiansLauren Selders

2. American Toad They eat a wide variety of insects and other invertebrates, including snails, beetles, slugs, and earthworms. Polygynous. American toads breed from March to July each year, depending on location. The male toads establish territories and begin calling the females.

3. Bullfrog eat just about anything they can fit in their ample mouths, including insects, mice, fish, birds, and snakes May to July in the north and February to October in the south. Polygyny. Fertilization is external, with the females depositing as many as 20,000 eggs in a foamy film in quiet, protected waters.

4. Eastern Wood Frog feeding on insects The males move around the breeding area actively searching for a female. Wood frogs breed once yearly. March to May.

5. Fowler’s Toad The adults eat insects and other small terrestrial invertebrates, but shy away from earthworms

6. Gray Tree Frog These guys eat the usual insect diet. Crickets, moths, flies

7. Green Frog It eats insects, spiders, other tadpoles

8. Northern Leopard Frog a variety of invertebrates such as crickets, wax worms, fly larvae, and earthworms.

9. Pickerel Frog Pickerel frogs consume insects, earthworms, and other invertebrates

10. Spring Peeper Spring Peepers eat mostly small insects, such as beetles, ants, and flies, as well as spiders.

11. Western Chorus Frog His diet consists of small invertebrates such as flies, beetles, ants, spiders, leaf hoppers

12. Northern Fence Lizard • The fence lizard is diurnal and beneficial to humans because of the insects they eat, especially beetles. They also eat spiders, centipedes and snails

13. Five-lined Skink • Five-lined skinks prey on a wide variety of insects, spiders, and other invertebrates

14. Eastern Newt • Adult newts eat worms, insects, small crayfish and other crustaceans, snails, mussels, tadpoles, other amphibian larvae, amphibian eggs, and fish eggs.

15. Hellbender • Crayfish and small fish are the main food items consumed by Hellbenders

16. Mud Puppy • Feeds at night on fish, crayfish, aquatic insects, worms, fish eggs; they rely heavily upon olfactory cues to find their prey.

17. Red Salamander • This salamander is a carnivore, feeding on small insects, worms, and other invertebrates, and occasionally smaller salamanders.

18. Red-backed Salamander • Red-backed salamanders feed on a large variety of invertebrates. These include mites, spiders, insects, centipedes, millipedes, beetles, snails, ants, earthworms, flies, and larvae.

19. Small-mouthed Salamander • Adult small-mouth salamanders eat insects, other arthropods, slugs, worms, and sometimes aquatic crustaceans.

20. Spotted Salamander • Spotted salamanders eat invertebrates such as earthworms and insects or anything else they can catch and swallow.