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Originally Posted by MBAtarga
Somewhat related to the spider story above, years ago when we lived in Dallas TX, we had one of those bug zappers just outside the back door for the patio. It ran every night. We noticed a frog started showing up nightly. He just sat underneath the zapper waiting for dinner to drop from the sky every night. He got big - very quickly!
On the "strange" things list- we've got a small wooden box (4x6) with a tile top that has a painting of a chicken sitting on a nest. Over the years, it's been kept in a kitchen drawer - and every time someone finds something small around the house that is somewhat "undefined" - we put it in the "chicken box." It's grown to quite a collection of miscellaneous hardware - screws, nails, bolts, nuts, little pieces of plastic, some odd keys that we don't know what locks or doors they open, etc. The intent was to keep things that we might realize later what they belonged to, but the box seems to never get cleaned out...
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We had a toad that learned the lights along our sidewalk through the garden attracted bugs. Mostly June bugs. He grew a lot in the summer. I mentioned to my mom how the toad left toad turds everywhere that were mostly the wings of the June Bugs. She then begged me to go retrieve several of them and told me they are called a Toad spool, not a turd. I brought her three large spools, and she took them to the OKC zoo. They sprayed some type of preservative spray and mounted them on pins in the reptile exhibit in a display case about the Bufo Americanus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_toad
A year later we put in a koi pond on spring. We wanted to let it grow some alga before we put in some koi. The toads found it right away and we had a toad orgy in the pond. And zillions of tadpoles. Every night as the baby toads came up into the garden we would gather up a hundred or so, and I took them to a local creek where thay had a better chance of finding food. I would sing "Born Free" as I released them. My wife and I transplanted a few hundred baby toads. Once we put in the koi, they ate the eggs and tadpoles and now we just get two or three baby toads per year that I see.