My garden was decimated last year because of pill bugs until I found "Sluggo Plus". It is for organic use and kills slugs, snails and pill bugs. It rocks! I then replanted, and the garden was awesome! Good luck! Here is a link to show you what it looks like. This is the big bottle, and I didn't order it from Amazon, but got it from my local nursery. Just thought I would show you a photo!

Here is a link that might be useful: Sluggo Plus at Amazon

My pillbug population problems all went away when I stopped using all chemicals. It did not happen suddenly but soon enough I had birds, lizards, toads, and geckos everywhere. In fact all my insect overpopulation problems went away.

How long have you been organic?

I have lots of pillbugs, but they never damage anything. They like the decaying organic matter, but leave living stuff alone. They will eat dead/dying plants though. They don't kill the plant, just eat the dead/dying.

Are the pill bugs the real problem or are you just seeing them there cleaning up damage something else made? Although they get a lot of blame pill bugs are not usually the real problem.

Thanks for the Sluggo suggestion. I'll take a look at it.

And to answer some questions, I've been gardening for about a year in a half and have been organic the whole time. Other than a battle with the squash vine borer, this is the only real bug problem I've had. And yes, I'm sure it's pill bugs; I've seen them in action. I guess my straw mulch is working too well. My beds are about the only moist thing in my yard; it hasn't rained much here in San Antonio this winter. Or the fall. And come to think of it, summer was dry too.

Do you or your neighbors have cats?

A year and a half in San Antonio should be long enough to develop your predator critter population. Before we got cats we had a lot more insect predators than we have had since then. Last year was the first since we got the cats that I saw a lot of geckos. I think my cats are getting too old to chase them. We used to have about five geckos on each window or screen every night. That number went to zero for a long time. I don't see as many lizards or toads, either.

On the plus side for cats, I don't see rats anymore.

Yes, we have cats, and they are killers. My wife took a lizard from one just the other day.

Another plus side to cats is that I really don't have a problem with birds getting my tomatoes.

Aaaa-HA! Cats. You can't live with them, and you can't live without them.

Aaaa-HA! Cats. You can't live with them, and you can't live without them.

I assure you I can live without them :) My wife is a cat lover and as a result I have had to tolerate the destruction of furniture to claws and the ruining of carpets to urination from cats that simply didn't like the idea of a litter box.

I will gladly deal with the mice myself as they do far less monetary damage to my house than the cats did.

Cats suck! :) (I go to duck for cover now)

Never knew pill bugs ate living plants, I thought they only eat rot.

Pill Bugs, Sow Bugs, Potato Bugs, Wood Lice and numerous other names these land dwelling arthropods normally do eat decaying vegetation, but they are also known to eat living plants when populations are high and other food sources are not too readily available.
Most often when people see these crawfish relatives eating living plkants most of the time it is becasue something else first did and they are there to clean up. seldom are they the primary problem.

kimmsr, I think the "they are there to clean up" sounds right to me.
I find them under rotten boards & in compost or pile of dead weeds.
Pill bugs are of the Crustacea family, but are too small to boil in Gumbo.