A toad can eat three times its weight in tiny, tasty critters every day, but it doesn't eat flowers or vegetables.
Children appreciate toads, too.
Most giggle when they surprise one hidden under lush, green foliage, then gleefully chase it for a closer look. Once smitten, many young nature lovers enjoy making their garden pal a simple shelter, a toad abode. Toads are often confused with frogs, and the differences are quite subtle. Toads typically have dry, bumpy skin-not really warts as folklore would have it. They use their hind legs for hopping, and live as adults on land in damp, shady places, returning to the water only when they breed.