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    Posted: 26 Aug 2005 at 4:26pm
Hi

I spotted this in Norfolk today but he seems to be injured or diseased: does anybody have any idea what it could be?
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Well it could be the result of predation from a greenbottle fly Lucilia bufonivora or known as the 'toad fly'. Trevor Beebee's book Frogs & Toads has details of this on page 65 rather grim reading......

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Beebee T (1985) Frogs & Toads Whittet Books, Suffolk

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