What does snailicide mean?
Snailicide means A substance that kills snails..
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A substance that kills snails..
Organic snailicides for Katayama nosophora. J. Pharm. Soc. Japan. 69, 396-8, 1949. Citado segundo Chem. Abstr. 44, 3196, 1950.
The object of the project was to determine the possibility of using Sodium Pentachlrophenate as a snailicide and to see to what extent its use was practical, economical and efficient for the control of snails in our water courses;
A snailicide is for killing snails and slugs. Metaldehyde is a snailicide.
If infestation occurs within the pots, it will take constant surveillance to eliminate this condition — picking off snails from plants and placing pellets near (but not on) new roots, so they will eat the poison. Liquid snailicides will also give satisfactory results.
OPERATIONS AND PRODUCTS. / Suspected: Production of urea from ammonium carbamate, production of carbamates and polyurethan plastics, fungicides, weed killers, insecticides, insecticide repellents, snailicides,[…]
Scatter slug bait or dust with snailicide in shady places and around seed beds and cold frames before the slugs chew up seedlings as well as leaves of many plants.
Slugs—metaldehyde in prepared baits or in snailicide
Methoxychlor and DDT are comparatively poor snailicide materials.[…]Now metaldehyde is accepted as the best snailicide and is giving good results in many countries.
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Snailicide means A substance that kills snails..
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Organic snailicides for Katayama nosophora. J. Pharm. Soc. Japan. 69, 396-8, 1949. Citado segundo Chem. Abstr. 44, 3196, 1950.
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