Its probably all the cockroacjes migrating from across the border, bringing disease 

Poor cane toad's immune system can cope 

Not a Queenslander Leonie, but I can tell you this,  Mucor amphibiorum is an Australian fungus that causes disease in cane toads and other amphibians. It’s occurring in Tassie among platypuses too.

I also would love to see the disappearance of the toads but it worries me when you tell of this -- as so much can go wrong and effect other Animals -- they were talking about putting the Herpes virus to kill the Carp in Victoria -- I was alarmed that that could cause all sorts of problems in other areas?

Leonie, I recall reading an article about 2-3 years ago, on the CSIRO Lab research introducing a protien of sorts into the toads food. This is nothing new. We've seen explosive bananas to combat wild pigs and a breeding program to irradicate the dangerous mosquitoes. 

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Not as many insects as there used to be, for them to eat. There was little golden beatles under every light like a carpet. But that was about half a century ago.

What's happened to Christmas Beetles?

Haven't seen one for years.

We used to see brown beetles appearing a little before the Christmas ones, and eventually, they would all be 'invading' together.  The brown ones have arrived.  If the outside lights are on and you go out there you get bombarded with them.  There were hundreds of them a couple of nights ago, dwindling down to double numbers now.

We were just commenting we haven't seen the Christmas ones for a few years now.

I used to think maybe the brown ones were Christmas beetles before they got their fancy colours, but it appears not.  They must be an entirely different beetle though they look and act exactly the same way, apart from the bright colours.

Some good news on the Christmas Beetle front.

Simon Fearn, the collections officer at Hobart's Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, said he was frequently asked whether Christmas beetle numbers had dropped, with many people recalling seeing more when they were younger.

They haven't, but he said it's probably seen that way because most adults were not outside as much as they were as a child to notice. However in Tasmania in the early 1980s the beetles were around in plague proportions; they made homes in untreated power poles and hatched when they were replaced.

"So older people probably do have a point," Mr Fearn said, adding that Christmas beetles were still around in healthy numbers.

Male Christmas beetles from Northern Tasmania.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-19/the-traits-of-the-christmas-beetle-may-surprise-you/10626308

I’m sure there were more around when I was a kid, regardless of what Mr Fearn says. They were everywhere in my suburb in Sydney and they used to be rainbow coloured. Very rarely see them now, only the black beetles.

How will I practice my golf swing now that there arent any cane toads in my backyard 

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Plummeting insect numbers 'threaten collapse of nature'

Insects could vanish within a century at current rate of decline, says global review published in the journal Biological Conservation.

Francisco Sánchez-Bayo, at the University of Sydney, Australia told the Guardian: "The 2.5% rate of annual loss over the last 25-30 years is shocking. It is very rapid. In 10 years you will have a quarter less, in 50 years only half left and in 100 years you will have none.”

The analysis says intensive agriculture is the main driver of the declines, particularly the heavy use of pesticides. Urbanisation and climate change are also significant factors.

Full Guardian story.

We are creeping into their enviroment plus so many people get their homes sprayed outside and inside -- and use the likes of round up   ( gloysophate) on their gardens which kills everything it touches -- and everything that touches IT -- and so wipes out many injects -- then onto the critters that eat those and so on it goes till extingtion off MANY speies takes place and next is us!