Abstract
Golden apple snail is an invasive freshwater snail species that originates from South America. This snail is considered a threat to paddy rice which has caused great attention all over the world. In Malaysia, synthetic molluscicides have been used to control the golden apple snail without much success. Hence, it is imperative to find a practical method and effectively respond to golden apple snail invasions as early and efficiently as possible. This study was initiated to control the snails by inhibiting the egg hatchling through spot spraying the egg clutches using synthetic molluscicides. The eggs of the golden apple snail belonging to 1 day-old were sprayed with metaldehyde (5 %) and niclosamide (81.4 %) at five different concentrations. Then, the hatching rates of eggs within 20 days after treatment were evaluated. The analysis of variance test showed that the molluscicides significantly affected on hatchability of golden apple snail eggs (p < 0.05). The results demonstrated that increasing the concentration of the molluscicides were decreasing the hatchability of snail eggs, where the lower hatchability was found at 6.87 and 0.36 mg/ml for metaldehyde (5 %) and niclosamide (81.4 %), respectively. Since the treatment is confined to snail egg clutches, the amount of molluscicides used is relatively small and makes the control method become economically feasible to use.
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This work was supported by the RAGS Grant 600-RMI/RAGS 5/3 (192/2013), UiTM Sabah. Author also thank the paddy field staffs Kota Belud, Sabah which really helpful in golden apple snail sampling for this work.
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Sisa, M.H., Aspani, F., Massaguni, R., Awang Damit, H., Joseph, H. (2016). Inhibition of Egg Hatching of the Golden Apple Snail by Synthetic Molluscicides. In: Yacob, N., Mohamed, M., Megat Hanafiah, M. (eds) Regional Conference on Science, Technology and Social Sciences (RCSTSS 2014). Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0534-3_46
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