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Karen Zack writes:
| I have to agree with Sue - Sluggo works great at keeping slugs and
| snails away. I'm not sure I know what you mean by "pill bug," but if
| that's those little bugs that curl themselves into a ball (I've always
| called 'em rolly-poleys) - if we're talking about the same thing, I've
| had some troubles with them in my strawberry bed this year. At first I
| assumed it was slugs, but then I'd pick off the ones with holes in them
| and very often find the rolly-poley inside the berry. What I don't know
| is whether the slugs are doing the damage and the rolly-poleys are just
| canibalizing the damaged fruit, or whether they're causing it in the
| first place.

The former. While they can damage seedlings, they rarely do, and
their normal food is rotting vegetation.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.