Scrambled Egg Slime

[Don Boucher]

Last week I got a time lapse video of Fuligo septica, a.k.a. Dog Vomit Slime or Scrambled Eggs Slime in our compost. It's not fungus but an aggregation of single-cell organisms in the phylum Amoebozoa. They live independently in the soil but then come together and dissolve, spread as a pulsing goo called a plasmodium searching for food. Most die off with the top layer eventually forming spores.

https://youtu.be/xb992t0COeI

Don Boucher

NE Corvallis

[Margi Willowmoon]

I've never seen such speedy slugs!😀  

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