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Bright green growth with bubbles
Shallow run-off at Lake Hodges
Aka string, hair, or moss
Spotted on Jan 18, 2012
Submitted on Jan 18, 2012
8 Comments
You're welcome!! :)
Awesome! Thank you Sarah :)
Ah-ha! "Called string, hair, moss, or scum. The appearance on top of the water looks like a mat of various green colors and at times like a witches brew kind of boiling. Below the surface it looks like string or hair, even like sheets of cotton."
http://www.whatpond.com/pond-building/pr...
It IS hair or string algae!! :)
Similar for sure but I'm not confident yet. Thank you for looking into it! :)
hmmmmm....not sooooo sure now, Cindy!! Am still searching :)
Here's the site I saw the "hair algae" on:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lxn271/1572...
See what you think...
Hi Sarah, I don't recall seeing "hair" although it looked stringy underneath in the water. I'll upload a cropped image of it.
Hi Cindy...I found something similar. Hair Algae has the bubbles (though larger than the ones in your photo)... Do you know if your spotting had a "hairy" substance to it?