Is this some sort of #SlimeMold? #SlimeMolds

Slime molds spend much of their lives as amoeba-like single-cell organisms but can also join up to form colonies. They often appear as slimy blobs of various color (hence the name) but some also grow bizarrely shaped fruiting bodies. During the week after the much needed rain, I found a surprising variety growing on decaying hardwood deep in the forest.

Despite slime molds not being true fungi, I'm posting this for #FungiFriday. #SlimeMolds #Fungi

Some scenes from around the #garden

#fujifilm X-S10, #laowa 65mm #macro

#macrophotography
#naturephotography
#flowers
#insects
#SlimeMolds

“My eyes were starting to learn slime mold. My ways of seeing were altering, thanks to my new friends who were showing me what to look for. What was once invisible was quickly becoming apparent.”
Read “Creatures That Don’t Conform,” by Lucy Jones. https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/creatures-that-dont-conform/ Photo by Barry Webb. #SlimeMolds #SlimeMoulds

@kaarne I do love them. But so hard to spot and photograph!
#slimemolds

​​“How do we see the world as sacred again? By radical noticing.” In this narrated essay, author Lucy Jones brims with awe upon discovering slime molds in the woods near her home. Listen to this weeks podcast, “Creatures That Don’t Conform.” https://emergencemagazine.org/podcast/ #Podcast #SlimeMolds #SlimeMoulds

“How do we see the world as sacred again? By radical noticing.” In this narrated essay, author @lucyjones brims with awe upon discovering slime molds in the woods near her home. Listen to “Creatures That Don’t Conform,” by Lucy Jones. https://emergencemagazine.org/podcast/ #SlimeMolds #SlimeMoulds #Podcast

This week on our podcast, we bring you a story from down deep among the forest floor. Journalist and author Lucy Jones brims with awe upon discovering slime molds and explores what might happen if, rather than trying to decipher such creatures, we instead bask in the wonder of their obscurity. Listen to “Creatures That Don’t Conform.” https://emergencemagazine.org/podcast/ Photo by Barry Webb. #SlimeMolds #SlimeMoulds #Podcast

Found this #slimemold growing on a fallen tree in the middle of the forest. I see these fairly often but yesterday the last sun rays before sunset started illuminating them right when I was taking pictures and it looked a bit like lava flowing down so I thought worth sharing!

#slimemolds #inaturalist https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/148414974

@drymifolia I think this may be a #SlimeMold—do we have any slime mold people on fedi?

#SlimeMolds #sporespondence

In this essay, Lucy Jones discovers the magic of slime molds. Lying at the edge of our understanding, these beings invite us into their mystery and remind us of the vast possibilities of life on Earth. Read “Creatures That Don’t Conform.” https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/creatures-that-dont-conform/ Photos by Barry Webb. #SlimeMolds

' “Mum! Mum! I think I’ve found a slime mold!”

“No. NO??!!!” I shouted, sticking my feet halfway into my trainers and rushing out to my six-year-old daughter in our garden....

She pointed out a mass of tiny maroon tubes, clumped together on old damp pallets. The wood was loose, so I picked it up and fetched my hand lens. It was a mother-fucking slime mold. In my garden. In my garden! Holy shit. The hunt was really on. '

#SlimeMolds #myxomycetes

https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/creatures-that-dont-conform/

Neither plants, animals, nor fungi, the slippery, undefinable beings known as slime molds have in recent years captured the public imagination and demonstrated an intelligence that lies at the limits of our own understanding. Read more in this week’s newsletter. https://mailchi.mp/emergencemagazine/breaking-the-mold Photo by Barry Webb. #SlimeMolds

Slime mold in the moss. Someone told me this is a Trichia species.

#SilentSunday #SlimeMoldSunday #moss #mosstodon #SlimeMold #SlimeMolds #nature #pnw #macro #MacroPhotography

Slime mold in the moss. Possible Trichia species.

#SilentSunday #SlimeMoldSunday #moss #mosstodon #SlimeMold #SlimeMolds #nature #pnw #macro #MacroPhotography

I have a dear friend who's enamored with #SlimeMolds ... #Slimestodon? Can we have that?

Love your special interest people! Love on em and they will show you their treasuresome little worlds. 😊

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/02-Comatricha-with-droplets-640x480@2x.jpg

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/tags/slime-mold/

Help identifying please 🤔

I came across this lovely decomposing log last week on Ile-St-Bernard (Chateauguay, Quebec near Montreal Island).
I think I'm looking at moss and orange slime mold? Or would the orange be some other type of orange fungus?

#moss #fungi #SlimeMolds #mushrooms #mosstodon
#nature #Quebec #Chateauguay

https://www.facebook.com/100066795243911/posts/pfbid02TRGdMKiysHdnp143ALAECPACMYSa7bdDNAtp3hkWnTiPcBHVppz3SaB74EaUXVrdl/?sfnsn=mo&mibextid=nynbRp

Kate MacQuarrie does excellent natural history posts on Facebook...here is her post on Wolf's milk wolf's milk

Wolf's milk Lycogala epidendrum
#SlimeMolds

Good morning Dicty lights, she whispers to herself each day at work

#Dictyostelium #SlimeMolds #microbiology

@Bomengidsnl Those are #SlimeMolds. Not quite mushrooms/fungi.