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Insect Egg Slime Mold

Leocarpus fragilis

Description:

This slime mold starts out as a group of small round balls that resemble a mass of insect eggs. Later they open up into a fuzzy mass in the second picture.

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3 Comments

ThatBlueEyedGirl
ThatBlueEyedGirl 9 years ago

interesting!

Tom15
Tom15 9 years ago

Thanks António. Slime molds are interesting, but most are difficult ti identify, except for ones like this.

Great find Tom,slime molds are super :-)congrats and thanks for sharing

Tom15
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Tom15

Massachusetts, USA

Spotted on Nov 27, 2011
Submitted on Oct 23, 2014

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