Snails as Temporal Biomonitors of the Occurrence and Distribution of Pesticides in an Apple Orchard

The intensive use of pesticides in agricultural areas and the resulting effects have created a need to develop monitoring programs for their active assessment at low cost. This research entails biomonitoring study an apple orchard, using juvenile Cornu aspersum (O. F. Müller, 1774) snails exposed field microcosms. were deployed three different locations orchard area used assess temporal 100 semi-volatile non-volatile pesticides. was performed over 18-week period targeted center, border, outside orchard. Results showed that greater levels detected center as compared other sites. type level applied pesticide influenced its environmental dissipation, significantly accumulated by caged comparison presence revealed usefulness these species off-site emissions. findings this C. can serve reliable effective model organism emissions