I've been rescuing my lawn "slowly" since I bought my home about two
years ago. All big jobs are done for the renovations I had done.

I've worked to rescue the landscaping since then; irrigation, fescue
lawn / desert landscape. Remove trees, shrubs, put new trees in, etc.
Find lost drip emitters and fix irrigation.

I over compensated watering the back lawn areas this summer, trying to
hold the lawn in a blistering summer - 100F +

Now I have slugs and these small bugs that curl up in a little ball.

I'm correcting the water issue by the timer.

What are the armor looking bugs, all curled up in a ball. As for the
slugs; I will be after them, but in a desert I never had slugs before.

Suggestions, please?

Oren