Fig 1.
Three commercially available snail traps tested in the South Florida (USA) Giant African Snail eradication program: Snailer (A-exterior view, B-internal view), Snail Buster (C-exterior view, D-internal view) and bucket trap (E-internal view).
Table 1.
Decision matrix for optimal bait to test in the South Florida (USA) Giant African Snail eradication program.
Fig 2.
The total mean (±SE) and size class mean (±SE) number of Giant African Snails field trapped using 4 different commercially available traps (n = 20).
Table 2.
Decision matrix for optimal trap to test in the South Florida (USA) Giant African Snail eradication program.
Fig 3.
The percentage of Giant African Snails crossing a 5 cm barrier of copper sulfate (CuSO4), table salt (salt), snail and slug copper tape (copper tape), copper oxide (CuO), marine antifouling paint (antifouling paint) and insect stickem trap (stickem) after 12 hr under laboratory conditions (n = 7).
Fig 4.
The mean (±SE) number of Giant African Snails (GAS) field captured in bucket traps (n = 20) without a barrier (clean cone and no salt) and with barriers (insect stickem, salt on cone or salt on the bottom).
Fig 5.
The frequency that 3 size classes of Giant African Snails (GAS), adults (> 47 mm), juvenile (21–47 mm) and neonate (<21 mm), entered baited Snailer traps with either water-saturated table salt or dry table salt.
Fig 6.
The percentage (± 95% C.I.) of juvenile (21–47 mm) Giant African Snails (GAS) that entered baited Snailer traps with (a) no salt or dry salt (n = 18) and with (b) water-saturated salt or dry salt (n = 18).
Table 3.
The number of adult (>47 mm), juvenile (21–47 mm) and neonate (<20 mm) Giant African Snails caught in bucket and Snailer traps placed on 114 infested properties located in South Florida (USA).
The traps were serviced daily for one month.