What does amphibicide mean?
Amphibicide means A substance used to kill amphibians..
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A substance used to kill amphibians..
The toxicant would need to be relabeled by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for use as a selective amphibicide in static culture ponds before it could become available for use as described here.
But although I try as much as possible to avoid involuntary amphibicide, EOBM members were out there actually counting and measuring the poor flattened bodies ("female, tibia 34.5 mm"), checking what frogs had last eaten, and mourning the deaths.
Stepping gingerly so as to avoid any inadvertent amphibicide, I eventually found myself at the pond's center, the water now above waist level.
'The wee girls haven't caught a frog yet, so this talk of amphibicide is all exaggeration.'
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Amphibicide means A substance used to kill amphibians..
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The toxicant would need to be relabeled by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for use as a selective amphibicide in static culture ponds before it could become available for use as described here.
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