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Vol.2, No.10, 1148-1154 (2010) Natural Science /10.4236/ns.2010.210142 Effect of abiotic factors on the molluscicidal activity of oleoresin of Zingiber officinale against the snail Lymnaea acuminata Vijya Singh, Pradeep Kumar, Vinay Kumar Singh, Dinesh Kumar Singh* Malacology Laboratory, Department of Zoology, D. D. U., Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, India; *Corresponding Author: dksingh_gpu@yahoo.co.in. Received 28 April 2010; revised 30 May 2010; accepted 3 June 2010. ABSTRACT 1. INTRODUCTION Earlier it has been observed that oleoresin of It has been reported that, oleoresin of Zingiber offici- Zingiber officinale is a potent molluscicide ag- nale is a potent molluscicide [1,2]. Fresh water snail ainst Lymnaea acuminata. This snail is the Lymnaea acuminata is the intermediate host of liver vector of Fasciola species, which cause ende- fluke Fasciola gigantica, causing an endemic fascio- mic fascioliasis in eastern Uttar Pradesh. As liasis in the cattle population of eastern region of the this snail breeds and maintain their population state of Uttar Pradesh in India [3,4]. An effective method constant through out the year, so that the pre- to reduce the incidence of fascioliasis is to control the sent study has been designed to find out the population of vector snails and, thereby, break the life effect of variations in some environmental fac- cycle of these flukes [5-8]. Earlier studies have shown tors in different seasons, on the molluscicidal that oleoresin of Zingiber