Well, it sounds like you have the instructions to the Humboldt County
Banana Slug races in August.  We gather in one of our local state parks,
where the rangers gather banana slugs from the redwood forest.  We start
with a parade with the "Banana Slug Queen & King" and then the races
begins.  We even have a ranger race caller announcing the "speed" of the
contestants.  The race is so fast that we have time for 8-10  Humboldt
County corny jokes to be told during each race.  All in all, this county is
kinda like that... slow and corny.
Dan


>Dear all,
>
>So is there a continent these dreadful creatures haven't made it to? Whilst
>they probably cause little trouble in their native Europe, here the
>populations of Helix aspersa have reached very high levels, and they are
>the main reason you can't have a vegetable garden without spreading a
>fortune in snail pellets. They eat holes in newspapers and mail left in
>letterboxes overnight. They eat the adhesive labels off any plastic bottles
>they can get to (I've had to throw out several bottles of 'something' of
>the pesticide/paint thinnner type because the snails had completely eaten
>the labels, and I could no longer see what was in the bottles).
>
>The following game always does well at kid's birthday parties:
>Collect a buckful of snails fromt he garden. Give each child a snail and
>stick a sticker on the shell with the child's name, or a number of
>something else. Draw two circles on a concrete surface, a small one,
>surrounded by one large one. Put snails back in bucket. Tip the contents of
>the bucket inside the small circle. The snail that first makes it to the
>outer circle wins.
>
>As for disposing of the things, this has been discussed before, but I like
>the mean and cruel type methods, especially after the subject has just
>eaten the flower in one of my prize-winning orchids...
>
>Happy snailing
>
>Patty
>Dr. Patty Jansen
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