Shahawy, W. (2019). Field Trials on Land Gastropods Infesting some Ornamental Plants at Kafr El-Sheikh Governorate. Journal of Plant Protection and Pathology, 10(1), 7-11. doi: 10.21608/jppp.2019.40553
Wafaa A. Shahawy. "Field Trials on Land Gastropods Infesting some Ornamental Plants at Kafr El-Sheikh Governorate". Journal of Plant Protection and Pathology, 10, 1, 2019, 7-11. doi: 10.21608/jppp.2019.40553
Shahawy, W. (2019). 'Field Trials on Land Gastropods Infesting some Ornamental Plants at Kafr El-Sheikh Governorate', Journal of Plant Protection and Pathology, 10(1), pp. 7-11. doi: 10.21608/jppp.2019.40553
Shahawy, W. Field Trials on Land Gastropods Infesting some Ornamental Plants at Kafr El-Sheikh Governorate. Journal of Plant Protection and Pathology, 2019; 10(1): 7-11. doi: 10.21608/jppp.2019.40553
Field Trials on Land Gastropods Infesting some Ornamental Plants at Kafr El-Sheikh Governorate
Harmful Animals Department, Plant Protection Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Dokki, Giza.
Abstract
Land molluscs became one of the most serious pests attacking many plants including ornamental plants. Occurrence of certain land gastropods associated with some ornamental plants at Kafr EL-Sheikh Governorate was conducted. Results revealed that the land snails, Eobania vermiculata and Succinea putris and the land slug Deroceras reticulatum were recorded on the tested plants. E vermiculata was the predominant species while the other identified gastropods showed lower infestation levels. Therefore ,the seasonal abundance of the predominant snail, E vermiculata was studied and results showed that the population of E vermiculata was increased during spring months (171.99 snails/ 1/2 m2) as compared to summer and autumn(149,34 and 59,33),respectively whereas the infestation was the least during winter (40.67 snails/ 1/2 m2). Malabar was superior among the tested plants since it attracted the highest number of snails with mean of (5.68 ± 1.56) snails/ 1/2 m2 followed by Hlibiscus, basil, kockia, DustyMiller, Manitoka and Royal palm, respectively. Both of Pricharida and Duranta were the least attractive to snails. Concerning the efficacy of certain pesticides against E vermiculata under field conditions, Data revealed that Agrinate was more toxic to snails than the other pesticides, since it achieved the highest reduction percentage of snail population of (69.03 ± 7.2 ) % followed by Vicarb with reduction of (55.87 ± 6.8)% while Uphold was the least in this respect with reduction percentage of (25.41±2.6)%.
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