Slug Control: Current approaches and novel tools

Slug Control: Current approaches and novel tools

“You’re in heaven for slugs here,” Casey H. Richart, Ph.D. told a Holy Cross House packed with farmers, when the Southeast Alaska Farmers Summit was held in Petersburg back in 2023. “They’ll graze your bok choy, your lettuce,” Richard told the grimly silent farmers. He described slugs as vectors of plant diseases, and pathogens to humans including E. coli, Rat Lungworm, and other infections that c...