[Eala]

Don't forget to mention that our state gastropod, the banana slug, is ravenously carnivorous.

We have banana slugs here? Where??? (I remember seeing them often enough in the Santa Cruz mountains -- never saw the Zayante humpbacked slug, though.) All I've seen here range from jet black to a yellow-brown, some with leopard spots.

[Publius]

Gut them, soak them in vinegar to remove the slime, and then deep fry them. M-m-m-m, good.

[djf]

I've seen them up in the hils near Gold Bar. But you're right, most of the ones I see around the house are the generic pain-in-the-butt regular slimy brown types. When I first moved here in '79, I had a window that opened in the bathroom, I lived in a second floor apartment. Get home from work, head into the bathroom, and leisurely hanging out in my tub was definately a banana, golden yellow, about an 8 or 9 incher.

I still get shivers thinking about it, and never took a bath in that tub again!