SC - bugs
Philip & Susan Troy
troy at asan.com
Wed Feb 7 08:23:18 PST 2001
Olwen the Odd wrote:
>
> Tomato slugs. I recall my daughter put one in a jar and took it to
> kindegarten class. The thing made a cocoon and at the end of the year
> turned into a butterfly. It was beautiful! A far cry from that ghastly
> looking green thing.
> Olwen
Known around here [and I don't want to hear a _word_ about there being
no reason for New York City to have regional names for various flora and
fauna -- for once I'm glad Phlip is offline ; ) ] as tomato hornworms,
or even sometimes as big tomato hornworms.
This creature featured heavily in one of my more memorable childhood
traumas, in which my father, wearing gardening gloves, pulled a hornworm
off a tomato plant and gished it by simply skimming it, like a flat
stone onto the surface of a pond, onto the concrete sidewalk a short
distance away, where it splashed like a water balloon.
I'm considerably less squeamish now than I was then.
Adamantius
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