A very thin, wet, and dark brown twig enters the frame from the top right corner and ends in the center of the frame. At the end of the twig, a strange blob or orange, fluid-like stuff clings on, looking like tangled orange intestines. A tiny bubble of air is trapped at the center of the tangled mass. This weird orange stuff is a slime mold - an organism that crawls around in search of food, changing its shape as it matures from a liquidy mass to a hard, often tree-like spore dispersing form. 📷 Canon R5 Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM M, f/2.8, 1/10, ISO 400 Stack of 16 images 11/15/24 Northern Oregon Coast

Not a mushroom, but a slime mold! This very peculiar thing appears to be part of a slime mold that crawled onto the end of this stick and had nowhere to go

#slimemold #myxomycetes #myxology #slimemolds #mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms

🍄📷 📸🎞 🌿🌱 🟢 🍄 🍄‍🟫

2 photos side by side of the same Petri dish with the yellow slime mould inside. On the left is a photo taken yesterday and the slime mould points mainly upwards (12 o’clock). On the right the slime mould is mainly pointing to 10 o’clock and was taken this morning

Gertrude’s on the move! #slimemould

When you go to a microscopy club meet and come home with a pet slime mould.

A newly forming fruiting body that resembles a mushroom, with a pink cap and white stalk.

Red Raspberry slime mold (Tubifera microsperma), cosmopolitan. Waikahekaheiki, Puna, Hawaiʻi.

When scientists put slime mold over a map of Tokyo, they used food to represent urban areas. After a day the mold created a network nearly identical to Tokyo's rail network: all this without any brain.

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I noticed this patch of Heterotrichia ferruginea on 12 November. It looked as in photo 1. A few days later it looked as in photo 2. It is still there and looks as in photos 3 and 4. The capillitia are delicate and fluffy, but even the harsh winter didn't destroy them.
#slimemoulds #śluzowce

A yellow blob of slime mould on an old log basking in bright sunlight.

Spotted another Dog’s Vomit slime mould, second in a week after having never seen them before.

#SlimeMould #FungiFriends

A white half dome shaped fungus grows on a mossy dead fallen tree.

A white half dome shaped fungus grows on a mossy dead fallen tree.

Not sure what this is, ID app suggests Porcelain fungus?

🍄 #FungiFriends

The chocolate tube slime mold are better in focus in this shot in the top right quadrant. Another group of the bright yellow slime mold is also visible peeking through the cracked wood in the top left quadrant. There are a few sporadic couples and small groupings of that appear to be 2 different species of slime mold in the bottom left quadrant. Note the tiny white fungi just to the right of the massive yellow grouping of slime mold. Of course there is also the gilled bonnet fungi in the center left. And tons of disco fungi on the lower half of the wood. I'm probably missing a few things but there is just too much to describe. A composite of 28 pictures were used to create this singular focus stacked image.

In addition to the static fungi there is also a tiny beetle present on the large mass of slime mold. An any is also present in the center of the shot hanging from the ceiling of the crack that might be difficult to spot in the darkness. Another insect is in the center right on the lower portion of the cut wood. As in the first shot there are near countless Linopodes white mites with crazy arms seem throughout the crack and even on the bonnet fungi. A composite of 25 manually focused sequential pictures were used in the creation of this focus stacked image.

Let's play #SpotTheDifference!!

The cut end of this fallen tree had an absurd variety of life! #AltText for details.

At least 4 unique species of #Fungi, 3 species of #SlimeMold and 4 species of #Insects can be spotted in these shots in addition to the moss. #FungiFriends #Macro #Photography

Pinkish round slime mold on decomposing log

From 2016, wolf's milk - a slime mold!

In de natuur speuren naar paddestoelen is misschien wel het meest helende geweest in mijn leven. Dit wilde ik even delen met jullie.

De Pilobolus / Kogelwerper is een heel klein Mestzwammetje, 2 mm hooguit dat ontstaat op mest, in dit geval van Schotse Hooglanders. Het zijn een soort ballonnetjes die barsten als de druk binnenin te groot wordt. Het zwarte bolletje waar de sporen in zitten wordt dan weggeworpen. Het kan wel tot twee meter verderop terecht komen in het gras, waar de runderen het al grazend weer opeten. De hele cyclus begint dan weer opnieuw.

Ik kreeg een heel mooi bericht van iemand die gedoneerd heeft voor mijn boek:

'Het boek combineert Natuur, Kunst, Kultuur en Wetenschap, een prachtig geheel.

Heel prozaísch, maar wel de werkelijkheid.'

Ik word hier zo blij van!

Donaties zijn nog steeds zeer welkom! Link in bio

Na jaren speuren bij oude grofplaatrussula's vond ik vorig jaar eindelijk Vertakte Collybia / Dendrocollybia racemos. Hebben jullie ooit zo'n aparte paddenstoel gezien? Nu ik ze in het echt heb gezien denk ik dat het gemakkelijker wordt ze te vinden. Ik weet nu hoe ik moet kijken.

#fungifriends

A cluster of blue, grape-looking balls hanging from yellow threads off a tree.

Blue slime mold fruiting bodies dangling from a tree.
Badhamia utricularis.

#slimemold #fungifriends #naturephotography

Photograph of a fist sized clump of tiny white balls growing in a shape like half an egg stuck to the wood under the bark of a tree.

I found a slime mold!🍄📷

The only caterpillar from our holiday in Crete 🇬🇷

But it’s a belter…

Cretan Festoon 🐛

#NatureWithin

Barry Webb Documents a Marvelous, Macro Array of Colorful Slime Molds Thanks to Webb's up-close, high-resolution shots, we glimpse a phenomenally beautiful world that is otherwise virtually invisible.

We love a slime mold around here. “From mottled gray bulbs that look like snow-covered trees to pink, coral-like tendrils, Webb chronicles a huge array of colors and shapes.” [thisiscolossal.com]

Sweet, my yard has DOG VOMIT SLIME MOLD. That’s literally the name.

Diderma sp. from my leaf-litter culture in a moist chamber. Kicin. Wielkopolska (western Poland).
#slimemoulds #slimemolds #śluzowce #Myxogastria #Eumycetozoa #Amoebozoa

View of a river through trees.

View of a hiking trail on a steep slope.

A young white slime mold

A white slime mold

Nice Sunday hike along the Lahn River near Weilburg. Found two exceptional slime moulds, the False Puffball. 🍄 #fungifriends

Red raspberry slime mold (actually strawberry flavored) grows in caviar like clumps on a decaying log

Rise and shine! It’s time for slimes!
#SlimemoldSunday

Book cover: Pézizomycètes d'Europe with a macro photo of a small fungus with asci and spores visible

Exciting fungi book news: Ascomycete.org will publish the first volume of a series of books titled Pézizomycètes d'Europe this year.

Edited by Nicolas Van Vooren, with contributions from specialists from several countries #MycoBookClub #FungiFriends

Dažas gļotsēnes no rudens cauri ziemai saglabājas savā skaistākajā stadijā. 🥰
Tīģerkrāsas pārslainīte Diderma tigrinum.
Vildogas sāngravā, 9.04.2026.

New Arcadia article by Eiko Honda: learn how the Japanese naturalist-polymath Minakata Kumagusu’s (1867–1941) fascination with slime mold shaped a multispecies onto-epistemology—and a fierce campaign to protect shrines and sacred forests.
www.environmentandsociety.org/node/10086/

#envhum #envhist

Dog vomit slime mold (Fuligo septica)

Me too slime mold. Me too.

Yellow fuzzy balls of hair in champagne glass shaped yellow cups.

Slime mold spreading its spores on the wind via fuzzy heads of yellow hair.
Hemitrichia clavata.

#slimemold #fungifriends #naturephotography

Hanging bunches of pale blue slime mold fruiting bodies. Some have opened, showing a black spore mass inside, as well as a skeleton of white structural shapes of calcium.

Slime mold fruiting bodies showing their white calcium skeletons inside, a strange thing for a non-animal species to have.
Badhamia utricularis.

#slimemold #fungifriends #naturephotography

Head and front half photo of a very cute velvet worm. The markings are a mix of autumnal oranges and browns. The tiny black beady eyes are visible at the base of a pair of long antennae. Ooperipatus silvanus: Victoria, Australia. © Tiffany Kosch CC BY-NC-SA https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/266114322

I don't know how big Giant Velvet Worms actually are, but this one looks pretty solid. It has a white body (well, off-white to pale pink). Giant Velvet Worm (Tasmanipatus barretti): Tasmania, Australia. © Reiner Richter CC BY-NC-SA https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/39896639

A dark blue velvet worm strolling down a piece of broken timber. It has its head down, because it's probably embarrassed by the sudden attention. Euperipatoides rowelli: New South Wales, Australia. © Kai Squires CC BY-4.0 https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/59575113

A brown velvet worm covered in tiny papillae, each of a different colour. There is an indentation on the top of the head between the base of the two antennae and I suspect its to do with the generic name of Phallocephale. I'm guessing this is one of the species that has an eversible intromittent organ on its noggin. But I don't know and am unwilling to investigate further. Phallocephale tallagandensis: New South Wales, Australia. By Bruno Bell Public Domain. https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/326747488

Saving the best for last: Velvet Worms or Onychophora. Unlike other nominees, this is a whole phylum. When a whole phylum is underrated, you know where your vote should go. (9/12)

Pics: © Tiffany Kosch © Reiner Richter CC BY-NC-SA © Kai Squires CC BY-4.0 Bruno Bell Public Domain

#wormwednesday

Today's frog is Spencer's burrowing frog.