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Scrambled eggs slime.

 

   

Such pretty yellow flowers in the middle of the conifer needle debris! The patch of colour surprises the forest walker, he surely bends down and looks closer at it. If you touch it with a finger slime stays on the fingers, and the ”flowers” at once lose their shape. Most likely we have to do with our most familiar slime mold that is aptly known as dog vomit slime and belongs to the unicellular organisms (Protozoa).

 

It moves! If you mark the spot where you noticed the yellow being you will see  the next day that it has moved a little bit. The movement is of course extremely slow. On its way it eats beings that come in its way: bacteria, fungus spores and fungi.

 

A very interesting creature.