Lucretia 1, I don't think it's the syrphids and I didn't see anything else there that looked like it. Thanks for your help though. :o)) The first pic I posted was from Google, but it wasn't from a site that explained what the worm was... it was a stock photo site or something. Here are some pics I took this morning of the little culprits. ON THE STEM, ALWAYS NEXT TO A BUD, WITH ITS HEAD BURIED INSIDE AS IT HOLLOWS IT OUT... HERE IS THE DAMAGE THEY DO... MUGSHOT...(I couldn't get him to smile, with his wee beedy eyes!) BODY... HE THINKS HE'S CUTE... LOOKING FOR MORE BUDS TO MUNCH... To clarify, as long as I've been growing roses (10 years) I have always had these, I just assumed that this was what everyone was talking about when they mentioned "rose slugs". I thought that the REAL rose slugs were just some anonymous green caterpillar looking for lunch. If noone nows what these are, I will email Baldo or the "What's That Bug?" website to try to get an ID.

I found the Blackberry very straight forward. You could be reading your mail, click a link and read the web page and return to your mail without having to close the web page and return to the home screen. The I phone does not have a back button which I find so frustrating. My son has an Android and I find it more comfortable to use. It does have a back button. I like the screen better, seems clearer/sharper than Iphone. Iphone brags about their retina display. Sons, Samsung is brighter and colors seem better. Iphone is a data hog. You must remember to constantly close programs or they continue to run. There is no 'xing' off anything. You have to leave a page by returning to the home screen. There are so many things I dislike about the Iphone I won't bother taking the time to list. My guess is, if Iphone is your first smart phone, you'll love it because it's all you know. I also think it is appealing to younger people because of the Apple status symbol. Blackberrys were more 'business' orientated. They operated more like a computer. You could work from multiple screens and pages. Can't do that with the Iphone. Snidely, I've been following Blackberry over the past year hoping the company would come out with a new phone. I thought it was going under. I hoped Microsoft might buy them out. Now it seems they will release their new phone in the next few weeks. The tech reviews were very good. Blackberry will not have a physical keyboard but the testers report loving how well their new touch keypads work. The reports loved the ability to have multiple windows working at once without losing your place. I know many professional people who gave up on Blackberry and upgraded to Iphones. Not one of them thinks Iphone is better than their old phones. Many state they might switch back and are waiting for the release. If I can't get a Blackberry, I'd get an Android. I think its a better phone. Jane

Susan...now you know a pizza box just isn't gonna work...cause first you'll be thinkin whimsical...then about 2am one morning...you'll wake up and whimsical turns it to "IM HUNGRY FOR PIZZA"...LOL My son just had a car hood delivered to our house...the box was huge...about 5 feet long by 3 feet high...needless to say I went out there with a box cutter cause the cardboard was perfect for framing pictures...It would be perfect to sandwich your paper in between... I'd try Home Depot or Loews or Walmart early in the morning...you'll find your box for a perfect fit!!

Aren't people funny? A while ago stretch jeans would be vulgar and now they're on everyone in every size. No one thinks anything about it except airlines monitoring tots on guest passes. Does not matter what it is, if you can get most people to wear it, people think it's ok. I think most runway fashion is just an art show. They are selling mostly purses or perfume and just a few pieces from the collection. The rest is not that wearable by most people. If you have to have a beauty wearing it to make it reasonable is it really a good design? Most of those things would look terrible on a regular person.