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Article: Giant snail invasion.(Brief article)
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- Caribbean Update
- Article date:
- December 1, 2006
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Ravenous giant snails that emerge from the ground by night are thriving on Barbados, destroying crops and prompting calls for the government to eliminate them, reports AP (Nov. 8, 2006). A recent nocturnal survey found hundreds of thousands of African snails--which are often about the size of a human hand--swarming the central parish of St. George, the country's agricultural heartland, where farmers complained of damage to sugar cane, bananas, papayas and other crops. Volunteers sprayed government-supplied pesticides in gullies and other cool, low-lying areas where the ...
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Article: Barbados Fights Giant Snail Invasion
AP Online;
November 8, 2006 ;
617 words
...BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Ravenous giant snails that emerge from the ground by night are thriving on the tropical island of Barbados, destroying crops and prompting calls for the government to eliminate them. A nocturnal survey last weekend found hundreds of thousands of African snails - which are
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