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Though the wind may occasionally gust and howl against the window pane, still here in the solitude of my home laboratory, the quiet, so ever present, is deafening. It is a cold late winters evening, though the days are becoming longer the dark, so…

Not to say that anything is being consumed as food but it sure looks as though it is. However, P. polycephalum feeds on the microbial fauna that may accumulate on various substrates including mites and other hapless creatures that may get in the…

This thing is getting bigger and bigger and . . . "boldly going where no slime mold has ever gone before . . ."

It could be in your town, in your neighborhood, and on your street. It's intelligent, highly motile and more importantly . . . it's hungry. Grown entirely in culture, much cheaper than ordering them, though it takes longer to propagate and depending…

M0152A Approximately 47 hrs. 40 min. later from first observation. With the species ID still unconfirmed I suspect the genus to be that of Physarum spp.

Unidentified corticolous myxomycete? Please note the question mark. Some of these plasmodia maybe protoplasmodia or maybe aphaneroplasmodia, which is to say you may never see them, the plasmodia but you will see the fruiting bodies thereof. Now I am…