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Such pretty yellow flowers in the conifer needle debris! The patch of colour surprises a walker in the forest, almost certainly he bends down to look closer. If it is touched with a finger, slime stays on your fingers and the „flowers“ lose their shape.

 

It is a slime mold that people fittingly call dog vomit slime mold or scrambled eggs slime (in Estonian puugipask, tick crap), and it belongs to the unicellular organisms. It moves!  If you mark the spot where you noticed the yellow being you will see that the dog vomit has moved a little the next day. The movement is very slow, on its way it eats creatures that come in its way: bacteria, mushroom spores, fungi … A quite fascinating being.