A good year for dog vomit or scrambled eggs

[urbpan]

I don't know about you but I've been seeing a lot of our old friend Fuligo septica lately. Mostly I've been finding it old and dry on wood chips. Once I flicked it hard with my finger and got my fingertip covered in spores. I tried to think of something mischievous do do with my spore-dusted digit, but in the end I just wiped it off. It's not like it's hard to find the species around--I don't need to sneak it into places.


I caught this batch early in its life as it crawled through a bed of moss on a rotten log. I don't usually find it looking this much like scrambled eggs, so this was nice.

Comments

[autumnfox.livejournal.com]

Once again your blog helps me identify strange creatures encountered in our urban environment. My kids found the spore-bearing stage of this organism in a park last week, and I wasn't sure what it was. But now I googled "Fuligo septica" to learn more about your crazy lemon-colored friend there, and recognized our find in some of the pictures. Thanks!