Thursday, June 28, 2007

Nature is Wonderful

On a walk in the woods yesterday, Maeve and I saw a selection of variously colored banana slugs.

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This one is yellow.

For anyone not familiar with these behemoths of the Pacific coast, they go by the botanical name of Ariolimax columbianus. They are found in the woods in California up to British Columbia. They usually delight and disgust children.

Seeing a few of these on a hike the other day reminded me of an article I wrote 10 years (10 years!) ago for Virtual Garden. It's no longer available on-line, but I turned an old-fashioned paper printout into a pdf.

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Click for a big version.

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