#slimemold

Latin nameObservation dateLocation Metatrichia vespariaFebruary 17, 2023Ottawa County, Michigan, USA Link to original community LatitudeLongitude 42.979899-85.83285

Latin nameObservation dateLocation Tubifera ferruginosaJuly 16, 2022P.J. Hoffmaster State Park, Michigan, USA Link to original community LatitudeLongitude 43.11688-86.262083

Monday. But it was a national holiday today. The weather was so-so. Not too much rain. I took a short walk into the forest in the morning where I passed by this particular tree stump we've looked at once

Slime molds aren't actually molds or even fungi, they're protists. Real molds are more closely related to humans than to slime molds, and slime molds are more closely related to amoebas than fungi. Slime

A colection of Mushrooms,Fungus & SlimeMold from a album

This is the second time this kind of slime mold grew overnight on one of our compost heaps. It's full of bright yellow goo and covered in a fragile beige crust.

Slime mold is a sort of farm gelatinous blob, it’s a single cell but it doesn’t have any neuron or brain and yet if you put it in an environment in which there is a complex decision to make, for instance