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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 ...
It occurs naturally in the seeds and stems of several plants, such as the jicama vine, and in the roots of several other members of the Fabaceae. It was the first-described member of the family of chemical compounds known as rotenoids. Rotenone is approved for use as a piscicide to remove alien fish species, [3] see Uses.
The word pesticide derives from the Latin pestis (plague) and caedere (kill). [5]The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has defined pesticide as: . any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, or controlling any pest, including vectors of human or animal disease, unwanted species of plants or animals, causing harm during or otherwise interfering with the ...
Phasmarhabditis hermaphrodita is a facultative parasitic nematode that can kill slugs and snails. [1] It belongs to the family Rhabditidae, [1] the same family as Caenorhabditis elegans. P. hermaphrodita is a bacterial-feeding nematode and is a lethal parasite of several terrestrial gastropod families such as Arionidae, Milacidae and Limacidae.
Sodium fluoroacetate is used in the United States to kill coyotes. [47] Prior to 1972 when the EPA cancelled all uses, sodium fluoroacetate was used much more widely as a cheap [ 48 ] predacide and rodenticide ; in 1985, the restricted-use "toxic collar" approval was finalized.