Are slaters actually good or bad for your garden?

I read something about them giving off ammonia gas.

They eat leaf litter and rotting wood, nutrients found in soil and leaf litter, but isn't that just a way nature processes stuff, or are they a garden pest... or are they pests in large numbers?

Are slaters actually good or bad for your garden?
They become pests in damp areas and on small plants which are all ready damaged.



They do break down the organic matter and the ammonia is what they produce doing that.
Reply:Slaters? I calls 'em pill bugs, but there's a different name for them wherever you go. My girlfriend calls 'em roly-poly's.

Anyway, they're good for the garden as far as I'm concerned. They eat the dead vegetation and reduce it to compost. I don't think they attack any living plant tissue.

We all give off ammonia and other gases. Don't fault them for that.

And they're fun to play with.