On 15 Jul 2006 20:12:33 -0700, "Big C" wrote:


I've just started my first Kirby Cucumber patch this year and I noticed
this evening a few little slimy looking critters that look basically
like little pieces of earthworm hanging out around my cukes.

How new are you, as in; do you know what a slug looks like? I ask
because you say they look slimy, and most caterpillars and millipedes
don't, and very small slugs might look like pieces of an earthworm.


http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2010.html

http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7427.html

http://www.backyardnature.net/snail&sl.htm

It might help to know where you are, too.


Penelope
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