Fruiting Bodies of Trichiales Slime Moulds

e6filmusere6filmuser Registered Users Posts: 3,379 Major grins
edited October 31, 2015 in Holy Macro
I found these in our local "Ancient" woods during a recent fungus foray. They represent at least three species, the first two being probably one species. I suspect the white ones to be two species of Trichia. They were each about 1mm diameter.

EM-1, Kiron 105mm or reversed Schneider HM 40 at f16, twin flash, hand-held.

Some have been cropped considerably.

I believe the orange one (image a bit soft) to be a rare capture of this brightly-coloured stage of Prototrichia metallica. They were sessile and growing spaced apart, both factors relevant to identification

Harold

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  • piggsypiggsy Registered Users Posts: 88 Big grins
    edited October 30, 2015
    Wow, that's cool. Did you ever see this thing on the 'sewer alien' slime mould ? Do they move like that?

    What (or "is that a" :D) is the bug centre right on the second pic?
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  • e6filmusere6filmuser Registered Users Posts: 3,379 Major grins
    edited October 31, 2015
    piggsy wrote: »
    Wow, that's cool. Did you ever see this thing on the 'sewer alien' slime mould ? Do they move like that?

    What (or "is that a" :D) is the bug centre right on the second pic?

    Thanks, piggsy. Yes, we have a TV series specialising in such oddities.

    That's a juvenile woodlouse Isopoda. I wanted to see if anyone spotted it.

    Harold
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