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Yesmaj. tom wrote:btw I last sprayed round the beginning of December. No snails have been around really maybe 2 at most I've seen. The rainfall is what makes spraying the Thiodicarb ineffective. With the place getting dry, it's working just as expected.
Phone Surgeon wrote:Yea they does hide from the sun.
I was running some drip irrigation this morning preparing for dry season....started about 530 am....plenty snails by me....I had stop spraying thiovin since I get firetruck up by it but I feel ill have to hire someone to spray it again
THE race to capture the giant African snail (GAS) is on.
Since the Ministry of Agriculture announced its initiative to eradicate the snails through its bounty system, which offers a reward for the capture and submission of the pests, there has been keen interest in people taking up the opportunity to bag $5 per kilogramme (2.2 pounds).
The ministry’s bounty system, which pays people to collect and deliver the snails - dead, alive or in shell form - has been a hot topic on various social media platforms.
Hummuch snail in ah kg? Average..... 900-1000 per $100.00? Alyuh really feel credible payments will be made?matr1x wrote:People will not be paid.
Man almost loses hand after contact with African Snail
https://www.guardian.co.tt/news/man-almost-loses-hand-after-contact-with-african-snail-6.2.1611648.30763b4952
Days after a $5 bounty was announced for the Giant African Snail, a woman is warning people to be careful after her husband had to undergo surgery to save his hand after coming into contact with a snail while cleaning the yard at his home late last year.
Guardian Media was told that on December 29, Youksee was cleaning his yard at Achong Trace, Tunapuna, when his hand accidentally touched one of the snails.
His wife, Gwendy, said his hand began itching shortly after and then swelling.
“It start to swell, it lancing him. I put it in warm salt water and let him dip it. I squeezing up his hand and then after that, the thing just start to keep swelling. He couldn’t move his fingers, it just keep swelling and swelling.”
Gwendy said her husband went through a lot of pain over the past few days and was glad to have him back home with their children and their grandchildren yesterday. “The doctors had to gash it so that it wouldn’t reach his tissues to cause more damage. He is home now but we got a paper to take him to the health centre for dressing every day and we are very concerned and want the doctors to keep him in close check because we don’t want him to contract meningitis.”
Gwendy also had a stern warning for members of the public who saw her husband’s story on a social media thread, saying he did not want the five dollars.
“This happened way before the bounty was announced and people should stop joking on people’s lives. This is no joke. This is serious thing. My husband could have lost his hand,” she said.
“My husband knew how to pick up the snails because he did it many times before. Our area is festered and it is just my husband accidentally touched the snail and its slime caused the infection,” she added.
This species often harbors the parasitic nematode Angiostrongylus cantonensis, which can cause a very serious meningitis in humans. Human cases of this meningitis usually result from a person having eaten the raw or undercooked snail, but even handling live wild snails of this species can infect a person with the nematode, thus causing a life-threatening infection. Symptoms range from headaches to tingling, numbness and involuntary flexing of muscles. In severe cases, sufferers may go into coma and die.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lissachatina_fulica
pugboy wrote:i see ppl have them as pets and handling them barehanded
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