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Molluscicides (/ m ə ˈ l ʌ s k ɪ ˌ s aɪ d s,-ˈ l ʌ s-/) [1] [2] – also known as snail baits, snail pellets, or slug pellets – are pesticides against molluscs, which are usually used in agriculture or gardening, in order to control gastropod pests specifically slugs and snails which damage crops or other valued plants by feeding on them.
Ferric sodium EDTA, also known as sodium ferric ethylenediaminetetraacetate, is a broad spectrum molluscicide used to kill snails and slugs and protect agricultural crops and garden plants, and in particular to eliminate infestations of Cornu aspersum, the common garden snail. [1] [2] Chemically, it is a salt of ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid ...
Metaldehyde is an organic compound with the formula (C 8 H 16 O 4). It is used as a pesticide against slugs and snails. [2] It is the cyclic tetramer of acetaldehyde. [3]
repels aphids, slugs, and snails [3] Lantana ukambensis: repels mosquitoes [1] Four o'clocks: attract and poison the Japanese beetle [2] French marigold: repels whiteflies, kills nematodes [2] Garlic: repels root maggots, [2] cabbage looper, Mexican bean beetle, and peach tree borer. Geranium: repel leafhoppers, the corn earworm, and the Small ...
Freshwater snails are gastropod mollusks that live in fresh water. There are many different families. ... a disease estimated to kill between 10,000 and 200,000 ...
The snail lives for about two or three years, and when fully grown its shell is about 1.5 inches wide and an inch tall. Wood views the snails and other small species like it as rivets in the ...
Federal wildlife officials have agreed to conduct a full, year-long review to determine whether a tiny snail found only in high-desert springs near a huge lithium mine being built along the Nevada ...
Leucochloridium paradoxum, the green-banded broodsac, is a parasitic flatworm (or helminth).Its intermediate hosts are land snails, usually of the genus Succinea.The pulsating, green broodsacs fill the eye stalks of the snail, thereby attracting predation by birds, the primary host.