Efficacy of some pesticide baits for controlling the land snail moraeha cilrtiarti (montagu) under field conditions at Kafr El-Sheikh governorate [electronic resource].

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Field experiment was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of different pesticides against the land snail Monacha cantiana in Egyptian clover field at Kafr EI-Sheikh Governorate during the spring of 2004. According to mortality percentages, all the tested compounds, Carbaryl (Sekib), Fenpyroximate (Ortus), Hexaflumuron (Consult), Buprofezin (applaud) and Chlorpyrifos (Pestban) gave the highefficacyagain&t~land,maiIM cant/ana after one and three days offield application.,Whereas,'the mortality percentages were 100%, after six days offield treatment, percent mortality ranged between 75.7 to 95.9%. All the tested pesticides sh~wed high toxicity and persistence against the land snail M. cantiana within six days after field application and then rapidly decreased with time. The mean mortality percentages ranged between 69.7 to 76.2"/0 for the same snail after nine days from field application. LT₅₀ and LT9S values against the land snail Afonacha Ctllllialla were ranged between 7.1 to 7.6 and 3.6 to 6.0 days respectively. for all the tested pesticides.

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