Crawlies with Cri – Western Toad

macro photo of a small, dark gray toad with a faint cream-colored stripe down their back nestled into the broken wood of a tree stump.
Western toad (Anaxyrus boreas) trying very hard to camouflage against a splintered tree stump. Photo by Christy Solo

By Christy Solo – ONPA 1st Place Award Winner for Best Local Column

Note: For the entirety of Halloween Season 2026 we are going to reprint All Things and Crawlies from Octobers past. We just can’t do better – or spookier – columns and each of them is well worth re-reading. Enjoy!

To kick off our Halloween season Crawlies theme, this week we revisit the western toad (Anaxyrus boreas).

The western toad…

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