For a typical residential lawn (1/4 acre lot), it will take hours to finish.
Atrazine is also applied to Christmas trees, residential lawns, golf courses, and other recreational areas.
Ohio University includes four primary quadrangle residential lawns, also known as "greens," that have dormitories surrounding the central area per each.
Walk-behind mowing is okay for the majority of smaller residential lawns, those up to about half of an acre (20,000 square feet).
The Sunny Lane site is unique because it's on a residential lawn, she said.
The animals have mostly been on residential lawns or in parks.
Atrazine is used to a lesser extent on residential lawns, particularly in Florida and the Southeast.
However, it is now being used on residential lawns and commercial applications as well.
The entranceways are located proximately to large residential lawns of surrounding houses in the 1920s-built subdivisions.
For the average residential lawn, "that's not a whole lot of extra cost," he said.