An amphibious snail. Larvae mostly like to live in water, and adults generally like to live in grass in wet areas above the waterline.
Limpid type: mainly distributed along the Yangtze River and around lakes in Hubei, Hunan, Anhui, Jiangxi, Jiangsu and other provinces. There are a lot of beaches in winter and summer, and there is also a small area in the lower reaches of the Pearl River.
The distribution area of Oncomelania hupensis mostly lives in the lake branch, beach, grass beach and reed beach along the river. Oncomelania snails bred in these areas have large and thick shells with thick longitudinal edges on the surface. It is distributed by the sheet.
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The key to control schistosomiasis is to eliminate snails, which is equivalent to cutting off the intermediate links in the life history of schistosomiasis. Measures such as artificial capture, trapping, deep burial and poisoning can be taken to kill Oncomelania hupensis.
According to the life law of Oncomelania hupensis, irrigation and water conservancy construction can be combined in winter. It is most appropriate to poison before the temperature rises in April. Drugs that destroy snail eggs should be used after May, and young snails should be mainly killed after June.
Oncomelania hupensis consists of shell and software. The front of the soft body is the head, neck, feet and mantle, and the back is the internal organs. The shell with longitudinal ribs on the surface is called "ribbed shell snail", with a shell length of about 10 mm and a width of about 4 mm, and lives in lakes, swamps or water networks; The light shell snail is a "light shell snail", which is slightly smaller than the ribbed snail, 6 mm long and 3 mm wide, and is more common in hilly areas.
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