Slugs are often problems in field crops grown using conservation tillage practices in the eastern United States, as well as certain locations in the Midwest and the southern USA, as well as in Canada. Although most concern has been on corn and soybean, reports of problems from dry beans, cotton, oil-seed rape, sunflowers, winter wheat, and fall planted alfalfa are often received. Although most problems are in fields located in the original forested areas of eastern and southern USA, reports are also being received from the Great Plains' grass lands of slug issues in irrigated no-till fields. Overall, slug problems have increased in geographical area as growers in the USA and Canada have adopted conservation tillage practices. As in other areas of the world, determining new methods of slug control is of utmost importance in order to allow growers to continue using conservation tillage practices. In areas that are new to slugs, a primary concern is educating growers on IPM approaches to slug management.
