"Tom Warner" wrote in message
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big snip
Please, please in future try to find out what you are dealing with
before
you destroy it.
It really is not difficult to tell the difference between a slug and
a
caterpillar.

............ in general.
Have you seen a Pear-slug?
The larva of the Caliroa cerasi Sawfly, complete with six thoracic
legs and many rudimentary prolegs - very caterpillarish - in a sluggy
way.
(On the 'Other Insects' page of a web-site near here.

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