Talk:Spinosad

Regarding placement in Category: Biological Pest Control
Spinosad is a pesticide. It does not contain the bacteria from which it is derived, just the chemical produced by it. So placeing it in this category is not exactly accurate in my opinion however I would like to hear another POV on this. --Bugguyak 12:28, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Harm to beneficial organisms
Among others, Spinosad is widely documented to be highly toxic to honeybees. This article maks no mention of this fact, and instead states that is is not harmful to beneficial insects. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wiltonj (talk • contribs) 19:20, 18 March 2008 (UTC)


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Regarding Use on Cannabis
There was a claim on here that Spinocide is commonly used on marijuana however, there are legally NO pesticides approved for cannabis and the links were all broken and/or did nothing to support such claims. Pesticide use in marijuana is becoming a very controversial issue with legalization and I implore editors to be on the look out for industry shills who will edit the pages to make it seem as though certain pesticides are safe for use on the cannabis plant. There are absolutely zero peer reviewed studies done to back those claims, particularly claims made about the safety of pesticides used on the plant and then subsequently heated, smoked and inhaled for consumptions. This is just a cheap PR trick for large scale commercial growers to alleviate a growing concern about the safety of the products they are putting out into the marketplace. While the use of these pesticides on cannabis may prove to be benign, there are no studies currently that support any safety claims and no pesticides are approved for cannabis use. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.29.105.76 (talk) 21:41, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 06:43, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

Safety in canine application?
There is some chatter on the web about safety when used to kill fleas in dogs. Does anyone have hard evidence about this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by NessBird (talk • contribs) 15:35, 11 August 2016 (UTC)

Needs more copy editing
Edited uses section for clarity and smooth reading. Needs more work on both counts. Here.it.comes.again (talk) 13:37, 15 March 2019 (UTC) Here.it.comes.again (talk) 13:39, 15 March 2019 (UTC)

Citation style
This article's references appear to have long been styled consistently with full first names and separate fields for each author. A few days ago, User:Boghog changed it ("consistent citation formatting") to use a single vauthors list and only first-name initial. Given they appeared to edit every ref, that doesn't seem like it was about internal consistency, which would be a valid action, but is instead aiming for some wider wikiproject or site guideline. I don't see a specific one mentioned, and vauthors is not a sitewide or chemistry-article standard. Therefore, that edit does not seem appropriate, per CITEVAR. User:Invasive Spices undid the ref-formatting changes ("Rv chronic citation damage").

Boghog USer:Whywhenwhohow then changed them back again ("restore citations") without apparent further attempt at discussing or explaining. No. Stop and explain. DMacks (talk) 13:44, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
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 * I don't recommend restoring because something better must have come out in 20 years.
 * Invasive Spices (talk) 14:24, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Before my edit, there was a mix of first full names and first initials and a mix of first/last and author parameters. After my edit, there was a consistent use of vauthors which in turn enforces a consistent rendering the first names of authors. Boghog (talk) 14:28, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Many editors over many years have pointed to WP:CITEVAR. The above commenter continues to do this. 21:35, 4 July 2023 (UTC)