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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........
To: Red Badger
This was Gods gift to corn farmers in the 60’s/70’s.
Seriously.
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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.)
To: Balding_Eagle
"This was Gods gift to corn farmers in the 60s/70s." 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.
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posted on
04/16/2008 1:38:56 PM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: Joe 6-pack
I’m out of farming for 20 years now, but I think that atrazine has been replaced by herbicides that are more ‘efficient’ in terms of effectiveness and carryover, which was always a problem.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.
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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.)
To: Balding_Eagle
I WAS WONDERING WHY THERE ARE NO FROGS AROUND MY HOME LIKE THERE USED TO BE!.........
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posted on
04/16/2008 1:51:11 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
To: Red Badger
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!
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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.)
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.
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posted on
04/16/2008 1:53:41 PM PDT
by
Yaelle
To: Yaelle
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posted on
04/16/2008 2:00:24 PM PDT
by
MoreGovLess
(If Hillary wins in November, blame Rush!)
To: MoreGovLess
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posted on
04/16/2008 2:11:17 PM PDT
by
CobraJet
To: Yaelle
What was the concentration level that the frogs were exposed to?
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posted on
04/16/2008 2:16:17 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(It takes a father to raise a child.)
To: Red Badger
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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.)
To: Jeff Chandler
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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.)
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.
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posted on
04/16/2008 2:31:17 PM PDT
by
kennyboy509
(Ha! I kill me!)
To: kennyboy509
Dear Jeff,
Never mind that was atrazine not atrophine. DUH
I bad.
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posted on
04/16/2008 2:33:52 PM PDT
by
kennyboy509
(Ha! I kill me!)
To: Red Badger
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!
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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!)
To: Old Professer
>>35mg/litre bath for 48 hours.<<
I wonder what other substances would be harmful in those concentrations?
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posted on
04/16/2008 2:37:54 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(It takes a father to raise a child.)
To: Yaelle
“Dandelions actually have very healthful properties”
BS. They’re weeds.
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posted on
04/16/2008 2:52:14 PM PDT
by
Kirkwood
(Ask me again tomorrow.)
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.
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posted on
04/16/2008 2:57:14 PM PDT
by
Kirkwood
(Ask me again tomorrow.)
To: Kirkwood
They are good to eat when young...make a great salad.
After they get some age, they are good for nothin...
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posted on
04/16/2008 3:12:03 PM PDT
by
Adder
(typical bitter white person)
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?
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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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