"Hi Ian,
First request of 2023 - would it be possible to have some daywalker?"
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Got myself a new wild slime!
Started this discussion. Last reply by Patrick Barry Sep 15, 2020. 6 Replies 3 Likes
was thinking about Ian's post on biosecurity and not spreading Carolina worldwide, and the easiest option I could think of was to find my own local slime.The moist chamber method of Myxomycetes,…Continue
Convex hull and going beyond oats
Started Aug 27, 2020 0 Replies 1 Like
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13683377Herbal sleeping tablets - extract of valerian root to be specific.This has…Continue
Slime moulds in digital form
Started Aug 13, 2020 0 Replies 0 Likes
Quite a few projects going on to replicate their behaviour in the grasshopper community:…Continue
Big Bang Fair 2018
Started this discussion. Last reply by ian Mar 14, 2018. 1 Reply 1 Like
Got an email from Ian as follows:"Hello everyone,We’ve had a bit of a surge in membership recently which is fantastic but makes me wonder if I’ve missed something on TV about our liquid yellow chums.…Continue
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"stranger and stranger -
A second white slime has appeared, on oats scattered in the tray for one of the scelerotia. It looks like my porridge oats must be contaminated with spores. Anyone else trying this might need to do a tray or two…"
"What do they smell like? I've gotten hints of wintergreen of some, and butyric acid :( off another.
I moved my white slime to unbleached sugar paper - it's rough and grey, I think it's more transparent than white but it's easier…"
"The white oat eater accidentally dried out and formed sclerotia. I am not sure why it dired out faster than the other trays - I can only assume there was less water!Photo taken before dissection. I've split the scelortium into 4 by cutting and…"
"Seven days later:the compost scraping tray shows evidence of a very small, brown slime, possibly a fungus.
The origional dark grey one is going great guns, is possibly duplicated in the tray, and seems to not care about oats.Any other suggestions to…"
"links updated, and I am cringing so hard over oyster mushrooms. The thought never even occurred to me!"
"Interesting choice on the mushroom tub pic from the biosecurity point - oysters make huge numbers of spores and are now loose worldwide because of supermarkets! The last three images are just the peachstone for me.
Nice find. I'd…"
"I do hope it proves useful and successful.
And applicable to oats :)"
Got myself a new wild slime!
was thinking about Ian's post on biosecurity and not spreading Carolina worldwide, and the easiest option I could think of was to find my own local slime.The moist chamber method of Myxomycetes, Stephenson and Stempen was adapted, and Ian's guidance that absolutely nothing needs to be sterile was adopted.Three sampling locations were used - woodchip+bark in my flowerbed, a scraping from the bottom of the compost heap, and 4 postage stamp sized pieces of bark prised off the London Plane tree…See More
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