Double Distress.

PESTICIDES & wildlife; RELYEA, Rick; WILDLIFE conservation; PESTICIDE pollution; PESTICIDE toxicology; AGRICULTURAL chemicals; POISONS; TADPOLES; AMPHIBIAN declines; PREDATORY animals

Discusses research by biologist Rick A. Relyea on how the combination of common pesticides and the presence of predators can be lethal for tadpoles. Consideration of the sensitivity of tadpoles to the smell of danger; Difficulties associated with proving that modern pesticides are a major cause of the widespread decline of amphibians; Experimentation of tadpoles in water tanks with the pesticide carbaryl and red-spotted newts.