Garden Pests and Diseases: Pests: Calling all slug experts! (Not for the faint of heart), 1 by tiffanya

tiffanya wrote:
Hello from just South of you (Seattle/Tacoma)! One thing that I always remembered from my integrated pest management class was about the "breathing hole" on the slug. So, how I help reduce the slug population around our place...

I have a spray bottle filled with ammonia (yes, straight ammonia!). I take this out in the evenings at dusk and spray the little sluggies right in the hole. They curl up and die, then shrivel up and dry. It's a pretty clean method; just requires time and persistance.