slime mold with bug
dictydium cancellatum
This photo was taken on July 8, 2006 using a Canon EOS 30D.
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Wendy Bix, Églantine, irinsky, iwasfixin2, and 36 other people added this photo to their favorites.
1LB (71 months ago | reply)
Very interesting, f stop adds a lot to this photo
Photo_Freak (71 months ago | reply)
Very wicked stuff.
Églantine (71 months ago | reply)
beautiful_scuptural, like a work of art!
jiggerpress (71 months ago | reply)
this is great! I love the spider silohuette! great angle!
irinsky (71 months ago | reply)
SOOOOO pretty!
iwasfixin2 (71 months ago | reply)
you just went and out-did yourself (at least til the next post...)
excellent!
Scrubber [deleted] (71 months ago | reply)
Looks like dancing shadows.
Really great capture. Should make a nice poster.
camerar (71 months ago | reply)
awesome!
:¬)
Martin LaBar (on hiatus) (71 months ago | reply)
Another wow!
mizzbee (71 months ago | reply)
Is there no end to the marvels of slime molds? You are educating all of us, plus all this is so esthetically pleasing thanks to your great photography.
Mon@rch (71 months ago | reply)
such an interesting looking photo! I love the bug and how this slim mold looks! Great Job!
shelley04 (71 months ago | reply)
Almost looks like an x-ray, Very cool!
snake5 [deleted] (71 months ago | reply)
wow, in this one the picture dominates the slime
myriorama (71 months ago | reply)
thanks, everybody. this one was taken with the reversed 50mm on the 100mm macro lens.
degeerelle (71 months ago | reply)
Excellent!
snake5 [deleted] (71 months ago | reply)
-can't get enough of this picture - my new wallpaper :)
myriorama (71 months ago | reply)
thanks degeerelle and snake5, glad you like :-).
fcindy (71 months ago | reply)
great photo! interesting!!
deanbradshaw.com.au (71 months ago | reply)
very nice lighting, looks like a moonscape or something
omeuceu (71 months ago | reply)
where you find these one molds? Below trunks of trees? You must perhaps seek for these one very near of lakes, rivers, i.e. wet regions...
myriorama (71 months ago | reply)
omeuceu, i find them usually after a good rain, during warm weather, on dead wood, but sometimes even on leaves (living and dead), leaf stems, pine needles and sweetgum balls. start inspecting dead wood during these conditions, i'll bet you'll find some! also check moist corners, under loose bark etc.
omeuceu (71 months ago | reply)
I knew that. :) I was just curious with your answer. ;) But here now is getting very hot (almost 40ºC)... we need to wait for more cold weather.
Thank you.
omeuceu (71 months ago | reply)
I usually think myxomycetes as fungi but I was wrong!!! Really, they are protists - the left overs of eukaryotic organisms.
curiousity about slime mo(u)lds: "In 2006, researchers at the University of Southampton and the University of Kobe reported that they had built a six-legged robot whose movement was remotely controlled by a Physarum slime mould. The mould directed the robot into a dark corner most similar to its natural habitat."
photo fiddler (71 months ago | reply)
Amazing image!
RupertG (71 months ago | reply)
might be what an alien world looks like, well caught!
Techuser (71 months ago | reply)
Rupert said exactly what i wanted to say lol
alien landscape
Destinys Agent (66 months ago | reply)
Faultless composition. I love it.
Vik Nanda (65 months ago | reply)
too bad its winter right now, or I'd run right out and start looking for these
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Seen in your myxomycetes set. (?)
clairedesign (65 months ago | reply)
wonderful!!!!!
This photo was invited and added to the Nature Nerds group.
NJ1890V (14 months ago | reply)
Fantastic! (an added Perfection avec bug!)
Fotografía de Naturaleza de Paco Moreno Gámez (5 months ago | reply)
Genial toma