Pyrethins - the effect on guinea pigs.
We can be assured that linking is legal, so here's direct links to:
Pyrethrin I information (scroll to Animal studies)
Pyrethrin II information (scroll to Animal studies)
Full text of the artifcle "Actions of pyrethroid insecticides on sodium currents..." by Spencer et. al., as linked from PubMed
PubMed record with abstract for article "Pyrethroid-induced paresthesia" by Wilks.
(Can you tell I'm a former reference librarian?)
Pyrethrin I information (scroll to Animal studies)
Pyrethrin II information (scroll to Animal studies)
Full text of the artifcle "Actions of pyrethroid insecticides on sodium currents..." by Spencer et. al., as linked from PubMed
PubMed record with abstract for article "Pyrethroid-induced paresthesia" by Wilks.
(Can you tell I'm a former reference librarian?)
That's more than OK. The link to the HSDB pages lets anyone interested easily find out the rest of the stuff they have including the human toxicity stuff too. And as I said, it's a really great resource.
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Ah, the .gov stuff! Love it! I have some NADA files on my site and there is copyright info saying we can use them. I used to just link to the files and they kept moving the darn things around so I had dead links! I just hated that. So I took them up on their being public documents and stuck them here.
I read an article in the Minneapolis paper last week that said companies are now installing "mosquito control systems" for your yard. They work similar to timed sprinkling systems except they spray pyrethins instead of water.
The article went on to say that pyrethins were safe for people but with widespread use there were some concerns with water quality and resistance in the mosquito population.
What are people thinking?? Where do they think the runoff goes. It not only kills the mosquitos but butterflies, moths, beetles, grubs, ants, spiders, and any other bug in your yard.. Wow look at the pretty DEAD zone.
The article went on to say that pyrethins were safe for people but with widespread use there were some concerns with water quality and resistance in the mosquito population.
What are people thinking?? Where do they think the runoff goes. It not only kills the mosquitos but butterflies, moths, beetles, grubs, ants, spiders, and any other bug in your yard.. Wow look at the pretty DEAD zone.
They say that pyrethrins are nonharmful to humans?
http://msds.ogden.disa.mil/msds/owa/web ... sdsnr=9803
We used it as an insecticide in our greenhouses at school. It's certainly not safe to have on or in the air around you for an extended period of time, we had to wear respirators for it. It's not as dangerous as many chemicals, but I'd never spray it all over my yard daily though.
http://msds.ogden.disa.mil/msds/owa/web ... sdsnr=9803
We used it as an insecticide in our greenhouses at school. It's certainly not safe to have on or in the air around you for an extended period of time, we had to wear respirators for it. It's not as dangerous as many chemicals, but I'd never spray it all over my yard daily though.