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Giant, Toxic Weed Poses Health Risk
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| Tue Jul 19, 2011 07:48 AM ET
| By Emily Sohn
Posted on 07/19/2011 1:01:57 PM PDT by Red Badger
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The sap of the giant hogweed is extremely poisonous, with the potential to cause burns and even blindness. Click to enlarge this image. http://www.nyis.info/plants/GiantHogweed.aspx
To: Red_Devil 232; Diana in Wisconsin
Garden ping!.............
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posted on
07/19/2011 1:02:56 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(PEAS in our time? Obama cries PEAS! PEAS! when there is no PEAS!..........................)
To: Red Badger
Dang, and I hoped it would replace that Jimson Weed I’ve been smoking.
To: Red Badger
Time to dig out my old Genesis albums.
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posted on
07/19/2011 1:04:52 PM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: Tijeras_Slim
Well, you might smoke it once......................
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posted on
07/19/2011 1:07:12 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(PEAS in our time? Obama cries PEAS! PEAS! when there is no PEAS!..........................)
To: Red Badger
Why hasn’t “The Government” DONE something about this horrible threat?
Will somebody please think of the CHEEEEEEEELLLLLLLDRENNNNNN...
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posted on
07/19/2011 1:08:18 PM PDT
by
WayneS
(Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison)
To: Red Badger
Why hasn’t “The Government” DONE something about this horrible threat?
Will somebody please think of the CHEEEEEEEELLLLLLLDRENNNNNN...
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posted on
07/19/2011 1:08:35 PM PDT
by
WayneS
(Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison)
To: WayneS
You know the government loves illegal immigrants................
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posted on
07/19/2011 1:10:17 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(PEAS in our time? Obama cries PEAS! PEAS! when there is no PEAS!..........................)
To: Red Badger
I wonder if you could collect the sap and... Nevermind.
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posted on
07/19/2011 1:12:45 PM PDT
by
Cowman
(How can the IRS seize property without a warrant if the 4th amendment still stands?)
To: Red Badger
:: To protect yourself, she recommended first learning what giant hogweed looks like. If you see it, don’t touch it. If you touch it, quickly wash your hands with soap and water. Then, call your state’s department of natural resources or conservation and report it. The same goes for other invasive and poisonous species, O’Neill added. ::
Puhleeeeeze! If I find it, I’m gonna spray the schmidt out of it with Spectracide and dust the surrounding area with Sevin.
What is it with these bureaucratic pricks that believe only “they” can take care of these things and that ordinary folks can’t eradicate invasive weeds. He must be from Wisconsin.
Hey, O’Neill...take a flying leap ya stoopid gummint wonk!
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posted on
07/19/2011 1:14:28 PM PDT
by
Cletus.D.Yokel
(Islam is a violent and tyrannical political ideology and has nothing to do with "religion".)
To: Red Badger
” many states are making major efforts to eradicate it. “
Endagered Species lawsuits in 5., 4., 3., 2......
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posted on
07/19/2011 1:14:47 PM PDT
by
Uncle Ike
(Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
To: Cowman
Put it in a spray bottle?..........better than pepper spray!............
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posted on
07/19/2011 1:14:49 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(PEAS in our time? Obama cries PEAS! PEAS! when there is no PEAS!..........................)
To: Cletus.D.Yokel
Purple loosestrife sends me into a murderous rage.
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posted on
07/19/2011 1:16:17 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: Red Badger
aka Heracleum mantegazzianum
It is phototoxic
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posted on
07/19/2011 1:16:27 PM PDT
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. +12 ....Flash mobs are trickle down leftwing REDISTRIBUTION))
To: Red Badger
Spray a little roundup on it.
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posted on
07/19/2011 1:17:01 PM PDT
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
To: Red Badger
I’d name it the Obama Weed:
Not Native.
Toxic.
Invasive.
Gonna be difficult to get rid of.
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posted on
07/19/2011 1:19:14 PM PDT
by
dagogo redux
(A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
To: Cletus.D.Yokel
What is it with these bureaucratic pricks that believe only “they” can take care of these things and that ordinary folks can’t eradicate invasive weeds because they want to use this as a legal means of entry onto your property so they can fine you for growing illegal cabbage varieties.
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posted on
07/19/2011 1:19:25 PM PDT
by
Cowman
(How can the IRS seize property without a warrant if the 4th amendment still stands?)
To: Cowman
” I wonder if you could collect the sap and... Nevermind. “
Hmmmmm...
I’ve got a couple of neighbors who.... Nevermind...
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posted on
07/19/2011 1:19:31 PM PDT
by
Uncle Ike
(Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
To: cripplecreek
I'm in the Environmental Compliance field. I was run-off of a company right-of-way in Wisconsin by a "well intended" neighbor who didn't think that we should be eliminating the loosestrife.
The next year, she was complaining about the extreme amount of japanese beetles that were eating her perennials.
Meh!
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posted on
07/19/2011 1:21:25 PM PDT
by
Cletus.D.Yokel
(Islam is a violent and tyrannical political ideology and has nothing to do with "religion".)
To: Cowman
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posted on
07/19/2011 1:21:48 PM PDT
by
wxgesr
(I want to be the first person to surf on another planet.)
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