zephir on Nostr: I don’t know the impact on insects of the example I’ll add to this but it fits ...

I don’t know the impact on insects of the example I’ll add to this but it fits the spirit of your note: my grandparents farm came with the obligation by federal or state regulation to remove “noxious weeds,” which apparently had to be sprayed with Tordon. One drop on the leaf of a tree would kill it. My cousins and I carried this on our backs as children, walking over 2000 acres, spraying Leafy Spurge and Russian Knapweed and undoubtedly inhaling aerosolized particles. My grandfather hated the regulation but also sent grandchildren out to spray and eventually, when he saw sense, to pull the weeds, to raise us in a 19th century idea of work and to give the appearance of due diligence. The weeds were never beat, of course, and are endemic now.