Different control measures for controlling certain land snail species in Sharkia Governorate, Egypt [electronic resource].
أستخدام طرق مختلفة لمكافحة بعض أنواع القواقع الأرضية فى محافظة الشرقية - جمهورية مصر العربية.
- P.291-305.
Includes reference.
Trial through four steps was designed for controlling the brown garden snail, Eobania vermiculata Muller and the glassy clover snail, Monacha cartusiana Miiller in navel orange orchard highly infested with mixed populations of the two snail species in Anshas locality, Belbies district, Sharkia Governorate during the period from January to July, 2004. The program beginning with ploughig process as a mechanical control method during egg-laying period in January and Febrnary. It obviously decreased the populations of the two snail species. Since, general means of percent reduction in populations of E. vermiculata and M. cartusiana during six weeks after ploughing were 52.3 and 43.3%, respectively.