Do Slugs Eat Moss?

He has succeeded in identifying these compounds and in demonstrating their pest-repellent properties. Slugs are every gardener’s enemy: They can destroy overnight, what he has sown and cultivated. But snails don’t like all plants in the same way – they shun moss. Why is that so?

A milky slug (Deroceras reticulatum) eating moss

Seen on 3/6/2019.

Slug on a bed of moss

A cute little

Yellow slug (Limax flavus) crawling over moss.

Yellow