How to Use rodenticide in a Sentence

rodenticide

noun

• Modern rodenticides kill rats in a process that may take five to 10 days.
  — WIRED, 7 Oct. 2023
• Petersen said rodenticides that are used to kill rodents, can also kill hawks if the hawks eat rats or mice that have been poisoned.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Oct. 2019
• But animal rights activists are opposing the plan, saying other creatures will eat the rodenticide and spread it through the food chain.
  — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 10 July 2019
• Land use changes in the eastern United States and the prevalence of rodenticide to kill mice and rats have decimated its populations.
  — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 29 May 2018
• Should the poison bait drift into the ocean, the rodenticide would likely not show up at detectable levels in the water and near-shore fish and marine invertebrates, the agency states.
  — Will Houston, The Mercury News, 8 July 2019
• Critics contend that other wildlife could be poisoned by the rodenticide.
  — Fox News, 19 Dec. 2021
• Bioaccumulation, as the process is known, would pass the rodenticide up the food chain, where concentrations increase.
  — Jeff Wheelwright, Discover Magazine, 6 Aug. 2017
• Some commissioners were concerned about the 120-day lifespan of the rodenticide and its potential to pollute soils, nearby waters and wildlife.
  — Will Houston, The Mercury News, 11 July 2019
• Wilson told The Post that rodenticides can cause muscle weakness and hemorrhages when consumed by birds, and those side effects might have caused Flaco to fly into a building.
  — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
• Critics contend other wildlife could be poisoned by the rodenticide.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2021
• That quest kills many: the low-swooping birds get hit by vehicles, attacked by other raptors such as eagles, or poisoned by eating prey that has been exposed to rodenticides.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 8 Feb. 2018
• Mountain lions have also gotten killed by cars and from eating rodenticide, or rat poison.
  — National Geographic, 18 Apr. 2016
• The plan to spread 2,900 pounds of cereal grain pellets laced with brodifacoum — a rodenticide banned in California — has raised concerns about poisoning the diverse wildlife in the islands.
  — Will Houston, The Mercury News, 8 July 2019
• Human foods and medications look like treats to pets as do fertilizers and rodenticides.
  — Sun-Sentinel.com, 12 June 2017
• They are certified in rodent control and arrive with rodenticides, baits and tracking powder.
  — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2019
• City Councilman Paul Koretz warned his council colleagues about the hazards of rodenticides, which can sicken children and animals.
  — Ian Lovett, WSJ, 10 Feb. 2019
• Different studies have showed alarmingly high rates of rodenticide exposure in birds, as well.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 15 June 2023
• While depredation killings, vehicle strikes, poaching and rodenticide poisoning account for the majority of deaths, mountain lions face lethal perils in the wild as well.
  — Sean Greene, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2023
• Window, building and vehicle collisions, as well as lead and pesticide exposure due to hunting with lead ammunition and rodenticide use, were listed as among the top threats.
  — Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2023
• Our insistence on using rodenticide — despite all the horrible evidence of its cascading effects on the food chain — resulted in him getting mange.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2022
• To curb attacks on birds in future mouse generations, researchers plan to use helicopters to spread cereal pellets containing rodenticide across the island between June and August.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 10 Dec. 2019
• Officials say trees were clear-cut, waterways diverted, and the ground littered with containers of fertilizer and rodenticide.
  — USA TODAY, 19 Nov. 2019
• But Bay Area conservationists are worried that the poison, an increasingly controversial rodenticide called brodifacoum, will kill other species and make its way up the food chain.
  — Rosanna Xia, latimes.com, 10 July 2019
• The park service also noted that nearly every puma has been exposed to the poisons, with six collared lions and one uncollared animal documented to have died from rodenticide exposure.
  — Christian Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2022
• After the fall, the bird was found to have had severe pigeon herpesvirus and four different anticoagulant rodenticides, or rat poison, within his system, according to the postmortem testing results released by the Central Park Zoo on March 25.
  — USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2024
• Some genes, for instance, may be associated with resistance to rodenticide.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Mar. 2020
• Criticism has mounted against brodifacoum in recent years after animals like mountain lions were found dead with rodenticide in their systems.
  — Rosanna Xia, latimes.com, 10 July 2019
• In 2012, Hoopa Valley forestry head Mark Higley located a tagged fisher near his office that had ingested anticoagulant rodenticide.
  — National Geographic, 8 Apr. 2019
• Being an environmental scientist, he’s deeply invested in bobcat conservation – bobcats eating prey that’s been poisoned by rodenticide is one of his big grievances – and wishes only good things for these cats living in the big city.
  — John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 13 Mar. 2024
• To deter rats, cannabis growers in California and southern Oregon place rodenticide around young marijuana plants and along plastic irrigation lines.
  — Elizabeth Miller, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 30 Sep 2024