I have no way to determine the truth in this article, so I present it only as food for thought so to speak. Everything in this article could be true, or false. I did find it interesting and plausible. I would just suggest being careful with any poison around children and pets. I would certainly try to keep them out of an area that had any type of poison recently applied. First, info from slug magic, then the article .
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Now a response to those claims:
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