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Post by andy on May 17, 2024 20:43:35 GMT
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Post by peterba on May 18, 2024 15:23:22 GMT
Your MP-E is still churning them out then Andy.
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Post by andy on May 18, 2024 17:48:01 GMT
Your MP-E is still churning them out then Andy.
Fascinating. Thanks Peter. There's a slime mould group on Facebook which is helping get my eye dialed in to finding them and having more of an idea of what I'm looking at. And yes, the MP-E is still doing the biz and I still instinctively find the subject and focus through it...well most of the time anyway  . |
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Post by peterba on May 19, 2024 7:32:17 GMT
And yes, the MP-E is still doing the biz and I still instinctively find the subject and focus through it...well most of the time anyway .
It's evidently a superb piece of kit, and produces impressive results. You've obviously mastered the use of it, too. Some years ago, I did quite a lot of macro work, so I appreciate just how tricky it can be to get good results, even at 1:1... never mind 5:1.  |
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Post by andy on Jul 18, 2024 20:07:04 GMT
 Arcyria cinerea (TBC by knowledgeable people on FB), AKA White Carnival Candy Slime Mould. |
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Post by andy on Jul 19, 2024 19:36:13 GMT
I think this one is Stemonitis axifera AKA Chocolate Tube Slime Mould. Yesterday about 5:30pm:  Today about 9:30am:  Today about 4:30pm:  |
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Post by gray1720 on Jul 19, 2024 21:52:45 GMT
Nice - seriously freaky things!
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Post by Kath on Jul 20, 2024 14:19:31 GMT
I think this one is Stemonitis axifera AKA Chocolate Tube Slime Mould. Yesterday about 5:30pm: Today about 9:30am: Today about 4:30pm: Brilliant! I was reading about these the other day - apparently they 'walk'! |
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Post by andy on Jul 20, 2024 16:01:00 GMT
I think this one is Stemonitis axifera AKA Chocolate Tube Slime Mould. Yesterday about 5:30pm: Today about 9:30am: Today about 4:30pm: Brilliant! I was reading about these the other day - apparently they 'walk'! Thank you. There are some cool time lapse videos of them moving around when they are in the plasmodium stage. Above pictures are of fruiting bodies that produce spores to be distributed by the wind. |
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Post by JohnY on Jul 20, 2024 18:55:08 GMT
Something primordial about slime mould isn't there?
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Post by andy on Aug 6, 2024 20:46:15 GMT
Not sure which genus let alone species this is. I may have to get a microscope and collect samples to get any further with them.   Don't know what this one is yet either but have only just asked the experts so hopefully I'll get a steer in the right direction.  I'm guessing the above is an earlier stage of the below.    Whatever they are I'm pretty sure I've never seen them before and hope to learn a bit about them. |
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Post by andy on Aug 6, 2024 21:39:41 GMT
Barry Webb (who has an article on photographing Slime Moulds in the current issue of Outdoor Photography) thinks the darker stuff above might be a badly developed Tubifera ferruginosa (AKA red raspberry slime). Old pic of that species below:  |
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Post by andy on Oct 14, 2024 21:22:50 GMT
Need to go back with the proper camera as comparing against images online it looks, to me, more like a species that would be extraordinary rather than ordinary...   And by extraordinary I mean...  ...no dots in Scotland! Or it could be something widespread and common - www.naturespot.org.uk/species/dog-sick-slime-mould |
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Post by gray1720 on Oct 15, 2024 7:16:43 GMT
MUst go and see what mine in the greehouse are doing - I've not seen a resposnse to my joining request to an FB group yet, may have to try another.
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Post by andy on Oct 15, 2024 9:23:19 GMT
MUst go and see what mine in the greehouse are doing - I've not seen a resposnse to my joining request to an FB group yet, may have to try another. Not sure who the group admins are there. Hopefully they'll sort it soon. I got a better suggestion for my last one... en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brefeldia_maxima...that one wouldn't be out of the ordinary round here. Need to learn more about these things and get better at finding more of them then I might have a good excuse for some microscope objectives . |
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