How might this burrowing owl be threatened by our use of pesticides?
2006-09-16 08:48:15 · 3 answers · asked by YKSVOKIAHCT... 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
It's all a big chain.
It starts off by pesticides killing off animals which it isn't meant to harm. Owls would rely on eating these animals for survival.
Certainl overusing pestecides could harm other animals, but if the correct amount is used, there is less chance of this happenning.
2006-09-16 08:54:58 · answer #1 · answered by PTP 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both by poisoning the owl's food supply and by making this supply scarcer, we might shrink the owl population. However, most bugs develop a resistance to poison--a percent of the pop. is naturally resistant and they breed until they are the pop. Remember it's not survival of the fittest, but survival of the most well adapted, that includes adapted to us. So the owl and other creatures, including humans, adapt or they die.
2006-09-16 16:03:02 · answer #2 · answered by jadeaaustin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry that is not true. at present there is just one poison that is legal to use and that wears the skull and cross bones ,It is nicotine and there is many people that survived using it.
2006-09-16 20:10:58 · answer #3 · answered by JOHNNIE B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋