#rodenticides — Public Fediverse posts
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Genetic analysis of 147 house mice and 143 Norway rats from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Washington D.C. found the 84% of mice and 35% of rats had mutations in a gene that affects the efficacy of anticoagulant pesticides. This is consistent with exterminators' observations of reduced susceptibility in some populations.
Summary: https://scitechdaily.com/urban-rodents-are-evolving-to-survive-common-poisons/
Original paper: https://scijournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ps.70833
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Genetic analysis of 147 house mice and 143 Norway rats from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Washington D.C. found the 84% of mice and 35% of rats had mutations in a gene that affects the efficacy of anticoagulant pesticides. This is consistent with exterminators' observations of reduced susceptibility in some populations.
Summary: https://scitechdaily.com/urban-rodents-are-evolving-to-survive-common-poisons/
Original paper: https://scijournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ps.70833
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Warning to anyone with rats in their garden — and how to remove them https://www.allforgardening.com/1716540/warning-to-anyone-with-rats-in-their-garden-and-how-to-remove-them/ #BarnOwlTrust #garden #gardening #gardens #home #NaturalPredators #pests #PROPERTY #Rats #Rodenticides
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Warning to anyone with rats in their garden — and how to remove them https://www.allforgardening.com/1716540/warning-to-anyone-with-rats-in-their-garden-and-how-to-remove-them/ #BarnOwlTrust #garden #gardening #gardens #home #NaturalPredators #pests #PROPERTY #Rats #Rodenticides
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Regulator recommends rodenticides be removed from shelves
"Native animals including tawny frogmouths, powerful owls and quolls have been found dead after eating poisoned rats and mice. The widely available rat poisons could be removed from shelves at Australian supermarkets and other retailers after a federal regulator recommended they be declared a restricted product." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/11/rat-poisons-sale-could-be-restricted-australia-wildlife
#wildlife #biodiversity #conservation #rodenticides #anticoagulants #rats -
Regulator recommends rodenticides be removed from shelves
"Native animals including tawny frogmouths, powerful owls and quolls have been found dead after eating poisoned rats and mice. The widely available rat poisons could be removed from shelves at Australian supermarkets and other retailers after a federal regulator recommended they be declared a restricted product." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/11/rat-poisons-sale-could-be-restricted-australia-wildlife
#wildlife #biodiversity #conservation #rodenticides #anticoagulants #rats -
Documentaries show that predators such as #barnowls, #eagleowls, #tawnyowls, #kestrels, #commonbuzzards, #redkites, #foxes can be secondarily poisoned if they eat poisoned #mice.Long-term monitoring of barn owls reveals widespread contamination with #rodenticides,while systematic monitoring is lacking in many countries.This is precisely where the agricultural and hunting lobbies intertwine:instead of promoting natural predators as allies,they defend poisoning strategies
https://wildbeimwild.com/en/owl-parents-as-a-team-not-as-predators/
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Documentaries show that predators such as #barnowls, #eagleowls, #tawnyowls, #kestrels, #commonbuzzards, #redkites, #foxes can be secondarily poisoned if they eat poisoned #mice.Long-term monitoring of barn owls reveals widespread contamination with #rodenticides,while systematic monitoring is lacking in many countries.This is precisely where the agricultural and hunting lobbies intertwine:instead of promoting natural predators as allies,they defend poisoning strategies
https://wildbeimwild.com/en/owl-parents-as-a-team-not-as-predators/
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Poisoning native Australian predators in the name of rodent control
"Secondary poisoning is not an accidental or a misuse scenario. It is a highly predictable outcome of allowing the use of poisons in our ecosystems that accumulate in the body."
"Australia will continue using rodenticides that cause the greatest harm, Many native animals will continue to die slow and painful deaths." >>
https://theconversation.com/household-rat-poisons-found-to-be-unacceptable-risk-to-native-animals-so-why-arent-they-banned-272346
#Anticoagulant #rodenticides #SGARs #NativeWildlife #CompanionSpecies #biodiversity #poison #regulation #harm -
Poisoning native Australian predators in the name of rodent control
"Secondary poisoning is not an accidental or a misuse scenario. It is a highly predictable outcome of allowing the use of poisons in our ecosystems that accumulate in the body."
"Australia will continue using rodenticides that cause the greatest harm, Many native animals will continue to die slow and painful deaths." >>
https://theconversation.com/household-rat-poisons-found-to-be-unacceptable-risk-to-native-animals-so-why-arent-they-banned-272346
#Anticoagulant #rodenticides #SGARs #NativeWildlife #CompanionSpecies #biodiversity #poison #regulation #harm -
Household use of pesticides, and particularly rodenticides, and particularly during pregnancy, is associated with an increased risk of death within the first five years for children diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
Summary: https://scienceblog.com/fed-study-is-first-to-link-pesticides-and-death-in-kids/
Original paper: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6694/17/6/978
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Household use of pesticides, and particularly rodenticides, and particularly during pregnancy, is associated with an increased risk of death within the first five years for children diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
Summary: https://scienceblog.com/fed-study-is-first-to-link-pesticides-and-death-in-kids/
Original paper: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6694/17/6/978
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The Impact of a Ghostwritten Paper on the Fate of #Glyphosate - A downsized #EPA faces a deadline to review the #herbicide #safety without much of its in-house expertise. In Oct 2026 EPA must release decision on use of America’s most widely used herbicide. It will mark milestone in the 15-year registration review cycle for #pesticides (the umbrella legal term in the U.S. which includes #herbicides, #insecticides #fungicides #rodenticides) mandated under federal #law https://undark.org/2025/08/15/opinion-ghostwritten-paper-glyphosate/
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The Impact of a Ghostwritten Paper on the Fate of #Glyphosate - A downsized #EPA faces a deadline to review the #herbicide #safety without much of its in-house expertise. In Oct 2026 EPA must release decision on use of America’s most widely used herbicide. It will mark milestone in the 15-year registration review cycle for #pesticides (the umbrella legal term in the U.S. which includes #herbicides, #insecticides #fungicides #rodenticides) mandated under federal #law https://undark.org/2025/08/15/opinion-ghostwritten-paper-glyphosate/
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Dead owls are piling up in my freezer
"Australia is one of the last countries to ban or tightly regulate the use of first and second generation anticoagulant rodenticides...Rat and mouse baits containing second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides are commonly found in big-brand hardware stores."
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https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/dead-owls-are-piling-up-in-my-freezer-perth-scientists-take-a-stand-20240704-p5jr71.html
#birds #NonTarget #wildlife #owls #APVMA #regulation #toxins #pesticide #anticoagulant #rodenticides #harm #FoodChain -
Dead owls are piling up in my freezer
"Australia is one of the last countries to ban or tightly regulate the use of first and second generation anticoagulant rodenticides...Rat and mouse baits containing second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides are commonly found in big-brand hardware stores."
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https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/dead-owls-are-piling-up-in-my-freezer-perth-scientists-take-a-stand-20240704-p5jr71.html
#birds #NonTarget #wildlife #owls #APVMA #regulation #toxins #pesticide #anticoagulant #rodenticides #harm #FoodChain -
We found pesticides in a third of Australian frogs we tested.
"In our newly published research, we detected pesticides in more than one in three frogs we tested. We found a rodenticide in one in six frogs."
"Pesticides have been shown to be a major cause of worldwide declines in amphibians, including frogs and toads. In the case of the mass deaths in Australia, we don’t believe pesticides were the main cause, for reasons we’ll explain.""We tested liver samples of 77 frogs of six species from across New South Wales for more than 600 different pesticides. We detected at least one pesticide in 36% of these frogs."
"Our most significant discovery was the rodenticide Brodifacoum in 17% of the frogs. This is the first report of rodenticides – chemicals meant to poison only rodents – in wild frogs."
"Two pesticides detected in frogs were organochlorine compounds dieldrin and heptachlor. A third, DDE, is a breakdown product of the notorious organochlorine, DDT."
"These pesticides have been banned in Australia for decades, so how did they get into the frogs? Unfortunately, these legacy pesticides are very stable chemicals and take a long time to break down. They usually bind to organic material such as soils and sediments and can wash into waterways after rain."
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https://theconversation.com/we-found-pesticides-in-a-third-of-australian-frogs-we-tested-did-these-cause-mass-deaths-228194Broad-scale pesticide screening finds anticoagulant rodenticide and legacy pesticides in Australian frogs>
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S004896972402672X?via%3Dihub
#amphibians #frogs #MassMortality #rodenticides #water #pesticides #chemicals #AnticoagulantRodenticide -
We found pesticides in a third of Australian frogs we tested.
"In our newly published research, we detected pesticides in more than one in three frogs we tested. We found a rodenticide in one in six frogs."
"Pesticides have been shown to be a major cause of worldwide declines in amphibians, including frogs and toads. In the case of the mass deaths in Australia, we don’t believe pesticides were the main cause, for reasons we’ll explain.""We tested liver samples of 77 frogs of six species from across New South Wales for more than 600 different pesticides. We detected at least one pesticide in 36% of these frogs."
"Our most significant discovery was the rodenticide Brodifacoum in 17% of the frogs. This is the first report of rodenticides – chemicals meant to poison only rodents – in wild frogs."
"Two pesticides detected in frogs were organochlorine compounds dieldrin and heptachlor. A third, DDE, is a breakdown product of the notorious organochlorine, DDT."
"These pesticides have been banned in Australia for decades, so how did they get into the frogs? Unfortunately, these legacy pesticides are very stable chemicals and take a long time to break down. They usually bind to organic material such as soils and sediments and can wash into waterways after rain."
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https://theconversation.com/we-found-pesticides-in-a-third-of-australian-frogs-we-tested-did-these-cause-mass-deaths-228194Broad-scale pesticide screening finds anticoagulant rodenticide and legacy pesticides in Australian frogs>
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S004896972402672X?via%3Dihub
#amphibians #frogs #MassMortality #rodenticides #water #pesticides #chemicals #AnticoagulantRodenticide -
After Shutting Down, These #Golf Courses Went #Wild Most defunct golf courses get paved over, but a number r getting transformed into #ecological life rafts for #wildlife, #plants — and people. These grounds are mowed just 2x a yr & haven’t been doused with #pesticides or #rodenticides since 2018, which was when this 157-acre stretch of land stopped being the San Geronimo Golf Course, and began a journey toward becoming wild, or at least wilder, once again. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/15/climate/golf-courses-conservation-nature.html #environment
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After Shutting Down, These #Golf Courses Went #Wild Most defunct golf courses get paved over, but a number r getting transformed into #ecological life rafts for #wildlife, #plants — and people. These grounds are mowed just 2x a yr & haven’t been doused with #pesticides or #rodenticides since 2018, which was when this 157-acre stretch of land stopped being the San Geronimo Golf Course, and began a journey toward becoming wild, or at least wilder, once again. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/15/climate/golf-courses-conservation-nature.html #environment
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"A single owl family can kill 8,000 rodents each year."
"But there are also particular conservation problems for owls. As predators, often of rodents, owls are susceptible to the accumulation of persistent pesticides (notably anticoagulant rodenticides such as brodifacoum) that we use to control rats and mice around our houses or more extensively for rodent plagues in crops."
"In Australia, we are profligate in our use of such chemicals and lax in our regulation of them. Secondary poisoning of owls is thus common. One study from Western Australia detected anticoagulant rodenticides in 72% of boobook owls found dead or moribund."
"During recent Australian mouse plagues, the New South Wales government sought an emergency permit to make available large quantities of the rodenticide bromadiolone. This poison is known to have cumulative impacts across food chains, particularly to predators such as owls. Its proposed use was ultimately quashed by the Commonwealth regulatory agency, largely because of such concerns."
https://theconversation.com/spooky-stealthy-night-hunters-revealing-the-wonderful-otherworld-of-owls-209498
#pesticides #regulation #anticoagulant #rodenticides #brodifacoum #FoodChain #owls #birds -
This is the first in our series of posts on #rodenticides There are less harmful ways to protect farm lands and other public spaces - stay tuned! #animalwelfare #animals ^GC