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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• In the Santa Monica Mountains, ingestion of anticoagulant rodenticides and vehicles remains a large source of deaths.
  — Sean Greene, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2023
• Our ancestors, in turn, encouraged and rewarded feline rodenticide — and an eternally fraught relationship was born.
  — Jerry A. Coyne, Washington Post, 3 May 2023
• However, only the island-wide application of rodenticide was considered likely to result in a successful outcome.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 10 Dec. 2019
• As residents stopped using rodenticide, the birds rebounded and the rodent population stabilized.
  — Erin Stone, azcentral, 24 Mar. 2020

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024