Sentence examples for greyback from inspiring English sources

The cane toad, brought to Australia to control the native greyback cane beetle, proved to be largely ineffective at that job but horribly effective at killing other native species (sometimes by eating them but mostly, because it is extremely poisonous, by being eaten).

In 1935, Australia thought it had a way to get rid of the greyback beetle: bring in bufo marinus (the cane toad).