For many wild flowers, road verges prove the last refuge from weedkiller.
We are aware of this damage, which occurred when an application of weedkiller to the paths was splashed into the grass by heavy rain.
It could result in weeds inheriting resistance to weedkiller, raising the spectre of so-called superweeds.
All showed typical similar symptoms of selective hormone weedkiller damage.
Young children are delighted to play with any form of container, especially if it is colourful, as some of the weedkiller containers are.
If we all demanded leather shoes the additional oil in the form of edible oils, fertilisers, weedkillers and insecticides would be needed for the cattle.
In another experiment a veterinary surgeon, assisted by other scientists, poisoned pedigreed dogs with the weedkiller sodium chlorate.
One of its major campaigns has been to get the use of the weedkiller 2.4.
