THE BEST BAIT PLACEMENT DISTANCE AND ATTRACTIVE ADDITIVES SUBSTANCE TO MONACHA CARTUSIANA SNAILS UNDER FIELD CONDITIONS.

Field experiments had been conducted in field cultivated with egyptian clover crop infested with monacha sp. at kolongeel village fields, el-mansoura district, dakahlia governorate during 2011 season, to determine the best bait placement distance, the most preference substance carrier and substance attractive to monacha sp. land snails.data revealed that the fine wheat bran as a substance carrier is the highly number of snails 21.7 followed by rough wheat bran 9.58 snails. the black sugar cane syrup is the highly attractive additives on substance carrier as bait with 28.46 snails followed by sucrose 12.19 snails. the distance of 0.5 meter was the best distance between (clump) baits with highly numbers 39.36 snails followed by 0.75 meter treatment 23.64 snails.