Assessment of some new pesticides as molluscicides against the adult and eggs of chocolate banded snail, Eobania vermiculata

Bulletin of the National Research Centre

Table 2 Toxicity of tested pesticides against the adults of chocolate banded snail, E. vermiculata

Insecticides	Percentages of mortalities %			Slope ± SE	LC50 and fudicial limits
Insecticides	*Means ± SE	**Means ± SE	***Means ± SE	Slope ± SE	LC50 and fudicial limits
Indoxacarb	100 ± 0.0a	66.7 ± 11.5a	33.3 ± 11.5a	2.9 ± 0.4	58.6 (50.9–66.1)
Abamectin	73..3 ± 11.5b	26.7 ± 11.5b	13.3 ± 11.5b	2.9 ± 0.8	63.3 (55.9–72.9)
Spiromesifen	60.0 ± 0.0b	33.3 ± 11.5b	6.7 ± 11.5b	2.8 ± 0.4	280.9 (244.5–336.3)
Control	6.7 ± 11.5c	6.7 ± 11.5b	0.0b
****F values	69.3***	14.1**	6.2*
LSD	15.4	21.7	18.8

*First concentration, **second concentration, ***third concentration
****Means under each variety sharing the same letter in a column are not significantly different at P < 0.05