Re: What's eating my tomatoes?

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• Subject: Re: What's eating my tomatoes?
• From: D* M* <D*@UCOP.EDU>
• Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 11:28:07 -0700

No, it's the University of California at Santa Cruz that has the banana
slug as a mascot. (I work for UC) The website is:
     http://www.ucsc.edu/public/index.htm


At 04:08 PM 7/17/97 UT, you wrote:
>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
>
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>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>
>
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