Stop slugs and snails from munching on your hostas every year buy doing this easy and quick fall cleanup task. Slugs and snails happily lay their eggs and overwinter around their favorite source of food (your leafy green hostas). By cleaning up the foliage, you reduce populations for slugs and snails next year. That means less stress next year and no need to use other control method to stop these pests. Most slugs in the USA are not native species - if you are conscious about leaving the leaves