This is a public-interest archive. Personal data is pseudonymized and retained under GDPR Article 89.

Re: What's eating my tomatoes?

Those sure sound like banana slugs!  Those ARE local to California, both north
and south.  In fact, Santa Barbara has a university whose mascot is the banana
slug... ::shudder::  How yucky...

Lisa Lisa
not a slug-lover

----------
From:   Square Foot Gardening on behalf of Robert A Schooler

At 06:42 PM 7/14/97 PST, you wrote:
>Dawn wants to know what's eating her toms:
<snip>
>>....and found slugs last year (horrible 5"-6" long scary
>>looking things).
>
>Geez, Dawn, that doesn't sound like Long Beach slugs to me, it
>sounds more like Portland or Seattle slugs! I've never seen a slug
>down here longer than a couple inches or so.

Hi Shawn
Thanks for the reply.
These slugs must of hiked or slithered on over here from up North.(or off an
alien space ship)  They're this horrible greyish/greenish color with yellow
strips down the sides (racing slugs i guess <grin>).  On the sides of the
?neck? there are these pipe looking tubes that you don't see on the normal
slugs.  Really bizarre looking.  I broke out my ruler and I'm downgrading
them to a 3"-4" size.  No way were they 6". To me, normal slugs are
brownish/grey and only 1" long, no tubes..<snip>

***************************************************************************
To unsubscribe, send to: listserv@umslvma.umsl.edu
the body message: unsubscribe sqft
See http://www.umsl.edu/~silvest/garden/sqft.html for archive, FAQ and more.
Other Mailing lists | Author Index | Date Index | Subject Index | Thread Index