Slug damage can be a common problem for hostas, as these plants are known to be a favorite food for slugs. Fortunately, there are several ways to protect your hostas from these critters putting holes in that gorgeous foliage.🌱🌱 Handpicking is a simple but effective method of removing slugs from your hostas. Go out at night with a flashlight and pick off any slugs you find. You can dispose of them in a bucket of soapy water.🌱 Copper is toxic to slugs, so you can create a barrier around your ho

What’s that hole on the side of slugs? This is how a slug breathes! All land slugs have a pneumostome (say it with me: new-mah-stome) on the right side of their mantle! Oxygen enters through this opening and moves inside the hollow cavity (called a pallial cavity) where gas exchange takes place. This entire system is also called a pallial lung. Certain marine and freshwater species, lack a pneumostome and instead use gills for respiration. Land slugs evolved to live in terrestrial or semi-aquati