Utilization of some mechanical and cultural control measures against terresterial snails [electronic resource].

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The performance of some plant traps ,tillage " process and hand collection on population reduction of two species of land snails namely Eobania vermiculata and Monacha obstructa under semi - field conditions was studied throughout the present study .The tested plants used as traps i.e., lettuce , cabbage, broad bean and sweet potato, nearly abated the snail population of both species to the half number. Lettuce plants proved to be the most attractive to land snails compared with the other plant traps followed by cabbage and broad bean ,while sweet potato was the least one.

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