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Paraquat is widely used as a suicide agent in developing countries because it is widely available at low cost. Further, the toxic dose is low (10 mL or 2 teaspoons is enough to kill). Campaigns exist to control or even ban paraquat, and there are moves to restrict its availability by requiring user education and the locking up of paraquat stores.
[4] [5] This phenomenon of poison shyness is the rationale for poisons that kill only after multiple doses. Besides being directly toxic to the mammals that ingest them, including dogs, cats, and humans, many rodenticides present a secondary poisoning risk to animals that hunt or scavenge the dead corpses of rats.
In late summer and early fall, groundhogs start chowing down even more vigorously to prepare themselves for hibernation, when a groundhog will lose up to 30 percent of its body weight. By late ...
Fun fact about Groundhog Day: There's an estimated 82 weather-predicting critters in the United States and Canada, according to Groundhog-Day.com. But if you want to know six famous groundhogs in ...
The groundhog (Marmota monax), also known as the woodchuck, is a rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots. [2] A lowland creature of North America, it is found through much of the Eastern United States, across Canada and into Alaska. [3]
New laws in Virginia include raising the age for jury duty exemptions, recognition of Virginia's favorite pollinator, and a road-kill free-for-all.
Sodium fluoroacetate, also known as compound 1080, is an organofluorine chemical compound with the chemical formula F C H 2 CO 2 Na.It is the sodium salt of fluoroacetic acid.It contains sodium cations Na + and fluoroacetate anions FCH 2 CO − 2.
Groundhog Day: What to know about the rodent, the shadow, and the weather February's federal holidays There's only one federal holiday in February, according to the OPM :