GETTING RID OF PILL BUGS

I hear people say that pill bugs are good for the garden; they break down dead matter adding compost back into the soil. That may be true up to a point but I can vouch for the fact that they adore nothing better than violas and many defenseless seedlings, including beans and cosmos.

I have always used the way my mother used to catch the nasty black slugs and large snails that visited our garden in England. Grapefruit skins. Orange skins work well too.

We are now into our 4th, 18 lb bag of Texas, ruby red grapefruit. We grow the best grapefruit here in Texas. We each have a half a grapefruit every morning for breakfast and the empty peel goes out into the garden. Every day I check underneath and dispose of the haul. There is always a collective noun to describe large groupings of a particular creature. Move aside crows, you have some company. This is crying out to be called a murder of pill bugs.