Laboratory Evaluation of Organic Compounds as Molluscacides and Ovocides, II

Abstract

A preceding paper (Batte, Swanson and Murphy-1951) reported results of screening 33 compounds for their molluscacidal activity against Pseudosuccinea columella Say and Fossaria cubensis Pfr., the intermediate hosts of liver flukes in Florida. Copper sulfate and dinitro-o-cyclohexylphenol were the only compounds which gave 100 per cent mortality of the test snails following 24 hours exposure to concentrations of 1: 1,000,000 and stronger. The previous paper deals with the literature on the subject, methods used, and gives some of the results. This paper presents results with other compounds.