regular slime guy

crawled there

You're welcome, I love amoebas SO MUCH

Hard usually means fungi

from instagram.com/yeweijun98

Amoebas more closely related to animals & fungi usually resemble Amoebozoans. Amoebas more closely related to plants or kelp usually resemble Rhizarians. Discobans ... ?

An accurate (as of 12/2025) tree of eukaryotes showing 6 kingdoms with multicellular life: Amoebozoa (including slime molds), Animals, Fungi, Harosa, Plants, and Discoba. A handful of other critters with no close relation have traditionally been called slime molds, but they are all microscopic & immobile when aggregated.

There are different amoebas, but the amoebas that grow into slime molds are Amoebozoans

Yeah I guess there's nothing we can do about posts with none of the terms. I mute the accounts as I see them but I still see new ones

This guy has a lot of great photos of slime molds, lichens, mosses, & rocks, but my favorite is this photo he took of a colony of feral cocktail wieners

It's not just you, it's everywhere. You gotta get up in your moderation settings and block some terms or whatever. Then you can filter out the fetish stuff and get straight to the slime mold content we're all here for

I think the ID is correct

They are nontoxic

Diderma miniatum by Carlos de Mier

Badhamia crassipella by Carlos de Mier

Erionema aureum by Gim Siew Tan

Lycogala by Michael Harz

Can I interest you in a nice orange? Perhaps a ciabatta & some spaghetti? Maybe a tasty berry?

I think the dark bumpy lumps are a type of fungi rather than a slime mold but I cannot remember what kind or find it online

Do you sleep on a rotten log

This is neat! Did you see what it turned into?

The taxonomy used to be messy, but it's ok now. Slime molds are amoebozoans! There's a handful of others traditionally called "slime molds" but they're all microscopic & immobile when aggregated. Only amoebozoan slime molds can travel after aggregation or get big enough to see without a microscope

Your ID is correct

6 kingdoms with multicellular life: Amoebozoa, Animals, Fungi, Harosa, Plants, and Discoba

Animal, plant, fungus, or none of the above!

CURSE YOU, GASTROPOD!

Probably not this one. Stemonitis or Fuligo septica would be more typical in your bathroom. There is some evidence Stemonitis flavogenita (or a close relative) sometimes lives microscopically in drinking water & in some people's butts

Stemonitis flavogenita time lapse by Edward Haskins (1974):

This is a crop of a video by Julian Cabral, in case the caption doesn't show

Does it help knowing it can move around like an animal before forming fruit bodies

Fuligo septica

This is my plasmodium

It's very small

I am not very good at using computers

No, the video is from youtube & is by Елена Серова (not sure about translating names). Does the attribution not show up? I put it in that text box that pops up when you post a video

The color comes from cytoplasmic manganese

from https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msad262

You know what's crazy? Humans are more closely related to 99% of fish than this fella is. Sharks are technically not fish at all from a genetic perspective, unless you want to call a toad & an elephant & a tyrannosaurus rex a fish too. Which you totally can, and no one can stop you, but I wouldn't

You got a problem with slime mold or something

Looks like Hemitrichia

Manganese

Hemitrichia clavata slime mold fruiting bodies. They look like yellow cones on brown stalks. They’re frosty, and chilling with some moss.

When you’re cold, they’re cold.
Pick up slime molds you find and take them into your home.

#slimemold #myxomycetes #fungifriends