Poison ivy and ponds

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"RichToyBox" wrote in message
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The botanist for the National Botanical Gardens in Washington DC said
at
a pond meeting several years ago, that Roundup can be used to control
weeds in natural ponds without affecting the fish and other animals. It
is apparently neutralized on contact with water. I would, personally,
limit the amount of roundup going into the pond, snip

Hi,
What this poster is recommending is illegal. While Roundup may be
effective
on poison ivy it is dangerous and as stated above illegal to use on water,
period. When all else fails RTFL. I googled "roundup + water" sans quotes,
and chose these links from 800,000.

http://www.pitt.edu/~relyea/Roundup.html "bad for amphibians"

read Relyea's report
http://www.mindfully.org/Pesticide/2...lyea1apr05.htm

quoted from http://darwin.bio.uci.edu/~sustain/g.../burry298.html
begin quote "Aquatic Midge larvae are killed in 55 PPM of glyphosate
50% of test populations of a predatory mite was killed by exposure to
Roundup
The endangered longhorn beetle is susceptible to low levels of glyphosate
As little as 10 PPM has been shown to kill 50% of test populations of
fish"
end quote
HTH -_- how
no NEWS is good
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Thanks for this information. I suspected it could be dangerous around ponds
and that's why I hesitated to use it on the poison ivy around the pond's
berm. I just looked at the label on Round-Up and all it says is not to
spray it directly on water - no mention of danger to fish or other critters.
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