Abstract
A study was conducted to determine the preferential feeding habits of the Giant African Snail (GAS) Achatina (Lissachatina) fulica (Bowdich) on selected crops and selected weeds found in Trinidad, ...
Highlights
The giant African snail (GAS), Achatina (Lissachatina) fulica (Bowdich), is a highly invasive terrestrial snail native to East Africa (Raut & Barker, 2002; Sarma, Munsi, & Ananthram, 2015)
Given the destructive ecological characteristic of this pest, the Global Invasive Species Database has ranked it among the “100 Worst Alien Invasive Species” (Invasive Species Specialist Group, 2012). This snail is of significant importance to tropical agricultural productivity (Raut & Barker, 2002) and to human health since it is known to be a vector of the rat lungworm, Angiostrongylus cantonensis, which causes eosinophilic meningoencephalitis in humans (Alicata, 1991; Prociv, Spratt & Carlisle, 2000)
The giant African snail is a generalist in its feeding habit, the current study pointed to the intraspecific site vulnerabilities within economic crop plants
Summary
The giant African snail (GAS), Achatina (Lissachatina) fulica (Bowdich), is a highly invasive terrestrial snail native to East Africa (Raut & Barker, 2002; Sarma, Munsi, & Ananthram, 2015). Given the destructive ecological characteristic of this pest, the Global Invasive Species Database has ranked it among the “100 Worst Alien Invasive Species” (Invasive Species Specialist Group, 2012). This snail is of significant importance to tropical agricultural productivity (Raut & Barker, 2002) and to human health since it is known to be a vector of the rat lungworm, Angiostrongylus cantonensis, which causes eosinophilic meningoencephalitis in humans (Alicata, 1991; Prociv, Spratt & Carlisle, 2000). The GAS is a defoliator and exhibits extensive rasping (scraping) feeding habits (Bhattacharyya et al, 2014)
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