“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 can lead to meningitis. On top of that, said Richart, “Slugs are an aesthetic pest. Slug poop is even less attractive than slugs, then there’s the holes they leave.”
With all the ways slugs cause probl...
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