Re:Bayer to Pull Glyphosate Products, from U.S. Home and Gar...
by likpok on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @04:20PM
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Does glyphosate poison insects at all? It targets a pathway specific to plants, and generally is non-toxic to everything else.
Farmers (and gardeners and homeowners) use a whole lot of other pesticides to kill insects, which will affect non-targeted species. Slug baits sometimes are mixed with other broad-spectrum insectisides, and Raid is persistent (part of it's design is to kill the wasps that return to the nest later!)
Re:Bayer to Pull Glyphosate Products, from U.S. Home and Gar...
by pkaye on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @04:43PM
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Roundup is glyphosate plus a surfactant. The surfactant is use to strip the waxy coating on plant leaves so the glyphosate can act. I've read the surfactant is the bigger issue for insects.
The other major effect is wide-range poisoning of insects that just happen to be passing through the garden.