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Early exposure to common weed killer impairs amphibian development [Atrazine]
www.physorg.com ^ | 04/16/2008 | Source: Tufts University

Posted on 04/16/2008 1:22:17 PM PDT by Red Badger

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This stuff doesn't seem to work on my dollar weed, even though I've been using it for years, it just keeps coming back........

1 posted on 04/16/2008 1:22:19 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

This was Gods gift to corn farmers in the 60’s/70’s.

Seriously.


2 posted on 04/16/2008 1:35:45 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
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"This was Gods gift to corn farmers in the 60’s/70’s."

Well, now that the libs have succeeded in pricing up corn for ethanol, they'll have to find a reason to ban atrazine to make it harder to grow.

3 posted on 04/16/2008 1:38:56 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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I’m out of farming for 20 years now, but I think that atrazine has been replaced by herbicides that are more ‘efficient’ in terms of effectiveness and carryover, which was always a problem.

Dead spots would appear in soybean fields the following year, irregularly from the carryover.


4 posted on 04/16/2008 1:50:57 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
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I WAS WONDERING WHY THERE ARE NO FROGS AROUND MY HOME LIKE THERE USED TO BE!.........


5 posted on 04/16/2008 1:51:11 PM PDT by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
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I WAS WONDERING WHY THERE ARE NO FROGS AROUND MY HOME LIKE THERE USED TO BE!.........

Don't worry, when they show up they'll all have eight legs!

6 posted on 04/16/2008 1:53:32 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
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To: Red Badger

What are we doing to ourselves? There is no way that this ONLY harms amphibians. Dandelions actually have very healthful properties, but we’d prefer our rolling lawns to be filled with harmful chemicals than wild natural weeds.


7 posted on 04/16/2008 1:53:41 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Yaelle

I agree.


8 posted on 04/16/2008 2:00:24 PM PDT by MoreGovLess (If Hillary wins in November, blame Rush!)
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To: MoreGovLess

Oh, brother.


9 posted on 04/16/2008 2:11:17 PM PDT by CobraJet
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To: Yaelle

What was the concentration level that the frogs were exposed to?


10 posted on 04/16/2008 2:16:17 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (It takes a father to raise a child.)
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To: Red Badger

Go here to read the actual study report:

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=2235211


11 posted on 04/16/2008 2:19:34 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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35mg/litre bath for 48 hours.

See: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=2235211


12 posted on 04/16/2008 2:21:38 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Each frog was tied to a 5 lb lead weight and submurged in atropin for exactly 30 min.

This was repeated 3 times a day for 52 weeks.

100 % of the test group showed death like syptoms at the 1st immursion test.

But in order to obtain more grant money the test were taken to their planned completion date.

This proves conclusivley that atrophine may hurt frogs and definitly raises Co2 levels.


13 posted on 04/16/2008 2:31:17 PM PDT by kennyboy509 (Ha! I kill me!)
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Dear Jeff,

Never mind that was atrazine not atrophine. DUH

I bad.


14 posted on 04/16/2008 2:33:52 PM PDT by kennyboy509 (Ha! I kill me!)
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This stuff doesn't seem to work on my dollar weed, even though I've been using it for years, it just keeps coming back........

Try baking soda and a spritz of water. Dollar-weed-b-gone!

15 posted on 04/16/2008 2:36:16 PM PDT by rarestia ("One man with a gun can control 100 without one." - Lenin / MOLWN LABE!)
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>>35mg/litre bath for 48 hours.<<

I wonder what other substances would be harmful in those concentrations?


16 posted on 04/16/2008 2:37:54 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (It takes a father to raise a child.)
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“Dandelions actually have very healthful properties”

BS. They’re weeds.


17 posted on 04/16/2008 2:52:14 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Ask me again tomorrow.)
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To: Red Badger

I use atrazine at recommended levels and have many thousands of frogs on the property. I’ve had so many that the lawn looks like it is moving some evenings. I also have thousands of toads, skinks, geckos, and various kinds of lizards and snakes.


18 posted on 04/16/2008 2:57:14 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Ask me again tomorrow.)
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They are good to eat when young...make a great salad.

After they get some age, they are good for nothin...


19 posted on 04/16/2008 3:12:03 PM PDT by Adder (typical bitter white person)
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To: Red Badger
Something about this study is deformed. They , “simulated the concentration (35mg./L), used in spraying application on fields’. The allowable amount in ground water is around 3 ppb. Three parts per BILLION.
Does anyone want to do the math? They used a concentration hundreds and then a thousand times what a frog would experience. In other words spraying frogs with Atrazine might cause deformities.
What happened to fungus and ultraviolet light causing deformities?
20 posted on 04/16/2008 4:40:43 PM PDT by count-your-change (you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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