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I never knew about Dog Vomit Slime Molds until my wife told me on our walk on Sunday. These slime molds can be white or yellow and are also known as witches butter (though I always thought there was a jelly fungus called that).

Apparently, in Scandinavian folklore, it is known as the vomit of Troll Cats 😱😱

They aren't dangerous though they can trigger allergies like rhinitis.

#fungi #SlimeMold #Mushtodon #Tasmania #lutruwita

Antero 1d ago

Another pretty slime mold formation. No wonder this one is also known as the coral slime mold.

#slimemold #ceratiomyxa #huokosnukkanen #forest #woods #fujifilm #macro

µP 1d ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@vcfe/116788716430833056

My (German) talk about "Unconventional Computing" from this year's #VCFe can now be re-watched on YouTube:

#RetroComputing #UnconventionalComputing #SlimeMold #Complexity

Antero 2d ago

Slime mold Sunday! Two types of formations of (apparently) one species in the genus Ceratiomyxa.

#ceratiomyxa #slimemold #forest #woods #fujifilm #macro #zerenestacker #slimemoldsunday

Pepijn 2d ago

Goodmorning! Question for the Wolf's Milk slime mold (Lycogala epidendrum) experts among us:

Why does the slime mold on the bench where I planned to have my morning coffee appears to suffer from the bubonic plague?

#gardening #slimemold

Euclid Jerome Darlings Jun 12

A nice slime mold by the kitchen door this morning.

Fuligo septica

#slimemold #nature #photography

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TheKnowDough May 27

Technically a #SlimeMold
The forbidden borrelnootjes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycogala_epidendrum

Lycogala epidendrum - Wikipedia

schoppenaas May 23

Heksenboter (witches butter) or in proper English: dog vomit slime mold #fungi #fungifriday #slimemold #sporespondence

Antero May 16

Is this a slime mold (as I first thought) or some lichen, such as Coniocybe eufuracea? It was growing inside an old tree stump, which was already unrecognisable in its state of decomposing.
Image created using Zerene stacker.

#lichen #slimemold #nature #macro #zerene #fujifilm

Diego Pastor May 8

Entomobrya albocincta (fam. Entomobryidae) + Myxomycetes indet.

[ES] Me llamó más la atención el mixomiceto que el bichillo, pero luego vi que el pequeño colémbolo también tenía su gracia. Una pena no haber pillado al mixomiceto un pelín más maduro; son unos seres interesantísimos: pasan su vida como amebas unicelulares que fagocitan bacterias, pero para reproducirse se reúnen todos juntos y forman estructuras que recuerdan a los carpóforos de los hongos y producen esporas (en la wikipedia lo explican mejor: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycetozoa ).
Fotografiado el 03/05/2026 en la provincia de Bizkaia.

[EN] The white slime mold caught my attention and then I saw the little springtail, which is also beauty.
Slime molds are a very interesting group of organisms: they spend their lives as single-cell amoebas eating bacteria, but to reproduce they aggregate into structures which are similar to the fruiting bodies of fungi and then they produce spores (better, read wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycetozoa ).
Photographed on 2026/05/03 in thye province of Bizkaia (Spain).

Equipo/Equipment: Canon EOS 400D + Tamron SP 90 mm f/2.8 Di MACRO 1:1
ISO 1600, s 1/200, f/4,0. A pulso/Handheld.
La segunda foto es un recorte de la primera/Second photo is a cut of the first one.

#myxomycota #myxomycetes #slimemold #mohomucilaginoso
#collembola #entomobrya #colémbolo #springtail
#insect #insecto #bicho #bug
#macrophotography #macrofotografía #macro