"While lacking feet, slime molds like this one can move inches, if not feet, per day through the forest by spreading their spores," park rangers said. For a sense of scale, this patch of slime ...

When she and her daughter sprayed the patches with a hose, spore-filled sacs burst, propagating the next generation. “We were just growing slime molds in the garden for the whole summer ...

Slime molds also reproduce in the way that fungi do, by producing spores. But their cellular structures are very different from fungi. Slime molds can also do some amazing things far beyond what a ...

The spores are then dispersed to create new dog slime mold patches. This stage of its life cycle is much harder to notice in the garden. The dog vomit slime mold will not harm your plants ...

Dried sporangia and spores of the insect egg slime mold. Photo taken on Stanford campus by Robert David Siegel, MD PHD, Stanford University. Over 1000 species of slime molds have been identified.

But what’s that white stuff on mulch? Yes, that odd, spongy mass of white spores is actually a slime mold. But a slime mold isn’t actually a fungus in the sense of the word as we understand it.

In the third stage, slime molds produce luscious fruiting bodies of every conceivable shape and hue. Please look them up on the internet if you want an experience of awe! Spores appear in the ...

I spoke to someone recently who had a powdery gray/black substance growing on their grass. It was nothing to worry about, just a fungal infection called slime mold.

Slime molds are a collection of single-celled organisms that move together in search of nutrients. They eat bacteria and appear on dead and decaying logs in Glacier Bay's Alaskan rainforest ...