Garden Pests and Diseases: THE SLUGGY FILES, PART DUEX: The White Circle of DEATH, 0 by Night_Bloom

Night_Bloom wrote:
My male kitty would have a ball with that slug of yours, Got. I don't have the garden variety slugs (or at least I've never had slime on any of my garden plants). They seem to like my rotting logs and leaves in the woods instead. But on humid nights when they come out and crawl on the cement wall, my cat can amuse himself for a long time by reaching up and poking the slugs and watching them shrink up, then waiting for them to pop out to regular size again. Bonus fun if they have antennae. We have both antennaed kinds and flat, black ones without antennae.

Tilt head to the side, Reach out paw and poke *shrink* *expand* tilt head to the side, Reach out paw and poke *shrink*.... repeat for about 15 minutes or more. My cat is easily amused.


But if you want to talk Uuuugly, even worse than the slugs, in my opinoin anyway, are these guys...

They eat earthworms (that's a nightcrawler it's got), and I'm glad there was a warning on this thread, because talk about grapic violence - I've even got blood here. Poor earthworm. I was too late to save him, so of course I got my camera and took pictures - mwhahaha.

And they're on the east coast, Noreaster - though I'm not sure how far up the coast they go so far - so you might be safer over on the west coast after all.