to be chafoin wrote:Well, it's true that on the internet you find what you want to find, but, concerning pets:
"Ferric phosphate, often presented as a safe product on the packaging, is less dangerous, but can cause salivation, vomiting and diarrhea, and if swallowed heavily can cause hepatitis." according to: https: //www.centre-antipoison-animal.com/les-antilimaces.html
Also, I wonder the effect that Ferramol causes on an earthworm for example ...
1) Nothing is perfect in this world! So the green kmehrs will always find fault. Even that an excess of dihydrogen oxide (H
²0) is harmful ... And indeed, someone who drinks water all the time would demineralize ...
2) It's true. But the following sentence is also interesting:
If your dog has swallowed metaldehyde or methiocarb, you must quickly contact your veterinarian or CAPAE-Ouest to decide what to do depending on the amount ingested, so that he is taken care of if necessary as soon as possible. .
If it is ferramol, the risk is lower, but veterinary treatment may nevertheless be necessary in case of gastroenteritis
Note the "may" ... as opposed to "it is necessary to quickly contact ..."
3) So for some animals accidental ingestion can be a problem. I don't have the packaging in front of me, but normally there is a "bitter" to prevent ingestion by pets and to avoid this.
4) On the other hand, its decomposition on site cannot generate environmental or soil problems, since this gives phosphate and iron ions, both already present.
And there, that changes everything!
Metaldehyde is harmful to the environment, amphibians, etc.
So without naivety, and without saying that there is NO danger (I may have said and written it; it is then by mistake, thinking only of the living system "garden" - thus the soil and his hosts), that seems minor to me. The "nuisance / benefit" ratio seems very favorable to me.
5) Worms, indeed, I don't know. I don't know if they take it. Research to be done. Because otherwise, if they ingest it, the risk of it having the same effect as on the slug, blocking their appetite, cannot be excluded at all. Research is needed to see if there is data. Because if that were the case, it would change things!
We don't play in the same division!