#slime moulds

[myxomycota]

Lobella sauteri eating Lycogala conicum

by m.k_matto

#lycogala conicum #m.k matto #collembola #springtails #bugs #slime mold #slime moulds #myxomycota #ecology #microbiology #microbiota #macro photography #forest floor #nature photography #lycogala

[briery]

Stemonitopsis species by Barry Webb.

#stemonitopsis #stemonitopsis typhina #slime mould #slime moulds #slime mold #slime molds #forbidden food #forbidden jellybean #forbidden jellybeans #myxomycetes #close-up #photography #nature #barry webb

[fungisamongis]

Species: Carnival candy slime mold (Arcyria denudata)

Location of specimen: Southeast United States

#slime mold #slime molds #slime mould #slime moulds

[maxwellshimbo]

So last week I learned that slime moulds can solve the Traveling Salesperson problem in linear time.

My first thought was So PvsNP is solved??

But then I remembered that slime moulds are not Turing machines.

#hi it’s me #i'm back #kinda #catering to noone but myself #slime mould #slime moulds #traveling salesman #traveling salesperson #p vs np #theoretical computer science #turing machine #alan turing

[vothnthorvaldson-blog]

Subjects most likely to be posted on my blog :

Lichens. Lots of lichens. Lichens are my main special interest ; I particularly love the Peltigera genus.

Myxomycetes, liverworts, mosses ;

Flowers, especially wild orchids ;

Fungi, animals ;

Pages from my comic (which does not have a permanent home right now, but temporarily (?) lives here https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=moonovermarsh;

Embroidery, various fiber arts;

Fabrics, patterns, sewing; Miniatures 1/12 to 1/6.

Edit March 22, 2024:

I made a secondary blog for fandoms, as I wish to keep this one mostly for my own nature-related content.

https://www.tumblr.com/vothnthorvaldsonfandomblog will be a mix of reblogs and my own content. My main fandoms are TES (Morrowind and Skyrim mostly, but not only) and Moomin . But I may also post about others that I'm either less involved into, or that are more niche.

#lichen #lichens #fungus #slime mold #slime molds #slime mould #slime moulds #liverwort #moss #mosses #wild orchid #wildflowers #wildflora #webcomic #fiber art #embroidery #moomin #miniature dollhouse #cloth doll #scale model #miniature #miniatures #the moomins #moomins #the elder scrolls #skyrim #morrowind

[stardust-bridges]

Club Furies Premiere: Centeno - Descendre [Diffuse Reality]

From Córdoba, Argentina, producer CENTENO presents his work entitled Slime Moulds, a collection of four original tracks that the Spanish platform Diffuse Reality Records has signed to its catalogue. The title of the work may refer to slime moulds (Phylum Mycetozoa), divided into cellular moulds and true slime moulds, found in damp soils where they feed on living bacteria. While the name of the…

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#Argentina #Barcelona #Centeno #club furies #Cordoba #Dark Techno #Diffuse Reality Records #Electronic #Electronica #Hypnotic #Portugal #Premiere #Slime Moulds #Spain #techno

[sajanrai]

Myxmy - a sentient slime mould masquerading as humanoid

#OC #character #character design #sajan rai #myxmy #slime mold #fantasy #fantasy art #art #artwork #artist #illustration #art nouveau #slime mould

[carrioncomforts]

dog’s vomit slime mould, Fuligo septica

#Fuligo septica #slime moulds #riv’s archive

[mycoblogg]

Whats the difference between lichen, moss, mould and mushrooms if they're all fungus? Aren't they all the same sorta thing?

so, interestingly, all of these groups are very different !! instead of naming the differences, let me quickly explain what exactly these organisms are.

lichen :

lichens are symbiotic organisms, meaning they are in themselves the product of a relationship between different organisms. to simplify it, lichens are big part fungus, & smaller part algae (protista) or cyanobacteria (monera). these different forms of life together create lichen, which grows on trees, rocks, leaves, mosses & sometimes other lichens !! to read more about lichens, check out @/lichenaday's blog :-)

moss :

mosses are actually not fungi at all !! they are small, flowerless plants. they grow on trees & in soil. :-)

mould :

mould is a type of structure that fungi can form - it is entirely fungal. it reproduces through airborne spores :-) there are many different types of mould ; some are toxic, some are used medicinally, & some are saprotrophs. (note : slime moulds & water moulds are unrelated to fungal moulds !!)

mushrooms :

so, lots of people think mushrooms are a species of fungus, but they are not. "mushroom" refers to the fruiting body of a fungus ; what a mushroom is to a fungus is comparable to what a flower is to a tree - the part that reproduces !! not all fungi produce mushrooms (e.g. moulds, which do not have fruiting bodies as the entire organism is able to release spores). there are currently only 14 000 discovered fungi that produce mushrooms !! more fungi that don't produce mushrooms include mildew, yeast & lichen.

so, yes !! they're all quite different in structure, cells & function in the ecosystem.

#please let me know if i should explain any of these further - i'm always happy to !! #except moss.. i'm not really a bryology expert ^^" #but the rest i am more than happy to continue about !! #• askbox replies: • #(ask : luminousmoon21) #|| #fungi #fungus #mycology #mushrooms #mushroom #earth #nature #science #moss #lichen #mould #mold #slime mould #plantae #protists

[myxomycota]

Tubifera ferruginosa

by sluzowce.sudetow

#trypophobia #tubifera ferruginosa #clusters #myxomycota #slime mold #sluzowce.sudetow #slime moulds #forest floor #protists #eukaryotes #fungi #tubifera #macro photography #microbiota #microorganisms #microbiology #ecology #biology #myxomycology #mycology #myxomycetes

[briery]

Stemonitis flavogenita stage 3 by Barry Webb.

#stemonitis #stemonitis flavogenita #myxomycetes #slime mould #slime moulds #slime mold #slime molds #close-up #nature #photography #barry webb

[fungisamongis]

Species: Dog vomit slime mold (Fuligo septica)

Location of specimens: Southeast United States

Note: Slime molds, especially this species, can be split into pieces and find their way back to the other parts. They change shape/texture while forming and moving

#slime mold #slime molds #slime mould #slime moulds

[mushroomgay]

I don't know what this white slime mould is, but the tiny forests of it carpeting this wood were beautiful.

#slime mould

[locusfandomtime]

see the fandom has this thing where the hermits are different species and when they’re part animal/mob they’re a hybrid but nobody talks about the even funnier canon lore that they’re all the exact same species. Their species is hermit.

[long post - lots of worldbuilding and speculative biology below]

Jevin looks like a slime, Doc looks like that, most of them look human, but in actuality they’re all just hermits. The only information we have about this is that hermits are shorter than the average player, some references to hobbits, some references to hermits being hardworking, the fact that gem isn’t a hermit and had to wear antlers to pretend to be one, and that’s it.

I love biology and worldbuilding and this is fascinating to me. When you take into account previous seasons and events and throw-away lines this gets even more insane. Grian and Hypno are acknowledged to not have mouths (and even more hermits don’t have them on their skin). Mumbo turned into a potato. Cleo had snake hair at one point. There are a million other weird things I’m forgetting. You could handwave some of this with an explanation like “hermits are shapeshifters” or “hermits are gods” and that is a very valid and fun take but I think it is SO much funnier if these are just normal things that happen in the hermit species, which aren’t fantastical at all and are adaptations with elaborate mechanics and explanations.

Perhaps hermits, similar to bugs, regularly shed their skin (or a process similar to it) and change their appearance. Some insects change colours/appearance due to their environment rather than genetics, ie macleays spectre stick insects can turn lichen colours when raised around lichen. Maybe the hermits shed their skins on a regular basis, including during their adult life, and this allows them to better match their environment- causing physical changes related to what they have been exposed to. This causes potato Mumbo and medusa Cleo and DM Tango and any other example of a specific skin change. For more constant differences in appearance - maybe life cycles could be considered?

this may be the weirdest thing I’ve ever made. For those that don’t know, “n” is the number of chromosomes, where n is the haploid number, so 2n is diploid. Diploid cells are necessary for sexual reproduction. Of course, a lot of these life cycles are centered around reproduction, as is the nature of a life cycle, but in reality the hermits are in no rush and are happy to stay at whatever point of the life cycle they’re at, this is just an outline of the species’ mechanics.

I mean, most of this diagram is conjecture… but I think it is interesting to consider! Jevin especially reminded me a lot of slime mould life cycles so this is heavily inspired off that, but also inspired by bug life cycles as well.

If you want to get even more indepth we can consider the gender roles of hermit society (remember that clip where Grian implied builders were housewives and redstoners were breadwinning husbands?). Perhaps we can get meta and consider respawn an aspect of being a hermit as well - are they able to regenerate after death? What is Cleo’s place in all this, being undead? Is arm thickness, where your arm can either be 3px or 4px wide, an example of sexual dimorphism?

but. well. tldr: the hermits being one species is a very fun idea we should be doing more with, i think

#this started out as haha funny the hermits are one species and ended with me making scientific diagrams #decided to call those stages imago. like insects. best fit i could find for what i wanted #please ask me about my thoughts on courtship and evolution and early life stages and respawn and anything else please god #locus fandom time #i should have a tag for my insane antics #locus worldbuilding time #hermitcraft #long post #hermitblr #speculative biology #the ideas here are heavily biased towards slime moulds and insects because. well. autism.

[saccharine222]

Trichia decipiens

(Salmon egg slime mould) 🍣

#nature #fungi #mushrooms #slime mould #plants #mycology #aesthetic #mushroom aesthetic #nature aesthetic #plant aesthetic #pretty

[wild-e-eep]

Lots of slime mould activity this August.

#slime mold #myxomycetes #myxomycota #slime mould #nature photography #Argyll #UK