Spot Slime Moulds

Fungi/Lichens
Written By Kim Manunui

Have you heard of slime moulds? They are not an animal, plant, or fungi. They spend most of their lives as individual organisms, but come together to reproduce. Once together, they form a big ‘blob’ which moves around to find food! It eats the bacteria on decomposing material. Horror movies have been inspired by these moving blobs that eat as they move!

Dog Vomit Slime Mould

Coral Slime Mould

We think slime moulds are pretty cool and enjoy looking for them on our bush walks. Several times we have spotted bright yellow ‘Dog Vomit Slime Mould’. What a cool name! It is also known in other parts of the world as ‘Witches butter’ and ‘Troll cat vomit’. Keep your eyes peeled on your next bush walk and you might spot a big yellow blob of dog vomit slime mould on decomposing leaves or wood.

The other cool slime moulds that we have spotted also have neat names, ‘Chocolate Tube Slime Mould’ and ‘Coral Slime Mould’.

We look forward to hearing about the slime moulds that you spot. Make sure you send us a photo!

Chocolate Tube Slime Mould

Coral Slime Mould -notice in the top right the plasmodial stage (shapeless blob that moves along eating bacteria and other organic matter) at the bottom the slime mould has moved into the next phase of its lifecycle and developed a fruiting body containing a sporangium, or spore case.

Watch this awesome Ted Talk video about slime moulds!

Kim Manunui

Hi, I’m Kim and I work with a great team to help individuals, as well as small and not so small businesses get their message, product and services to the world using digital media and creating wonderful websites that don’t cost the earth.

I was born in Canada, and grew up around Vancouver and the mountains of British Columbia. My love of pristine environments led me to New Zealand and eventually to the mountains, lakes and rivers of the central North Island which is home. My family’s heritage is here, and it’s from here that Korio traverses the planet.

The digital world is never static and neither are we.

And I say ‘we’ because I work with an awesome group of talented people who I gather together as required to complete a project.  Whatever your business, not-for-profit or individual needs are we gather the best team to get the job done.

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