#hemitrichia

[myxomycota]

Hemitrichia serpula by m.k_matto

[orofeaiel]

Hemitrichia Slime Mold

[samimarkart]

slime molds from today

[sitting-on-me-bum]

"Hemitrichia Calyculata"

By Nathan Benstead

Close-Up Photographer of the Year Awards

[e-paleolith]

SLIME!!!!! MOLD

[snailspng]

Slime mold PNGs

(1. Physarum album / 2. Arcyria denudata / 3. Comatricha / 4. Hemitrichia calyculata / 5. Arcyria denudata / 6. Certaiomyxa fruticulosa)

[organicmatter]

“salmon egg” slime mold Hemitrichia decipiens

[thisworld1]

Hemitrichia Calyculata” by Nathan Benstead (UK). Winner, Young. “I was walking through my local woodland, inspecting rotten logs and sticks last winter, when I came across a log covered in slime mold fruiting bodies or sporangia. I set up my camera gear and focused on a small cluster amongst the moss.” My Modern Met

[mortimer]

just gotta say i saw the hemitrichia serpula post and your tag about how it had the visual consistency of canned spaghetti and i just. thank you for putting words to the very visceral feeling of looking at that pictture. do you know a lot about fungi? whats your favorite?

i wouldnt say i know a ton about fungi outside of just absorbing facts by having a really good memory and a lot of autistic friends

like the hemitrichia serpula is a slime mold and slime molds are distinct from fungi. and i know an artist (who i would share with you, but they don't currently have a public website) who does art all about biology and they did like a whole publication about slime molds. last year they told me about how there are actually domesticated species of slime molds, and gave me one to take care of like a little pet. mine had a little too much to eat and fruited and promptly died (and when this happens you need to dispose of them in a particular way so you dont contaminate wild slime mold populations or other ecosystems)

out of fungi tho, i do like lace fungi in particular. i like her dress

and here's a sculpture i made based off the lattice shape of the lace fungus:

this was like the first sculpture i ever made and it is not so good but it does hold a special place in my heart and i do still have it. it looms over my bed at my mom's house

[dragonfang-photography]

Hemitrichia slime mould. Can't narrow down exact species because they all look the same until they fruit.

[myxomycota]

Hemitrichia serpula by jel_lam

[mscoyditch]

Nathan Bentsead. "Hemitrichia calyculata". Young Category Winner.

Nature’s Diversity is Captured in Minuscule Detail in the 2022 Close-Up Photographer of the Year Competition

January 8, 2023

ThisIsColossal.com

Kate Mothes

All images © the photographers and Close-Up Photographer of the Year, shared with permission

Among the winning images of the Close-Up Photographer of the Year contest, a frilly slime mold stems from leaves, elegant insects splay colorful wings, and microscopic patterns create vivid abstractions. Now in its fourth year, the competition attracted more than 9,000 entries from 54 countries.

The overall winner of this year’s competition was captured by Samantha Stephens and glimpses two tiny amphibians trapped inside a carnivorous plant. She explains, “typically, these plants feast on invertebrates such as moths and flies, but recently, researchers at the Algonquin Wildlife Research Station discovered a surprising new item on the plant’s menu: juvenile Spotted Salamanders (Ambystoma maculatum).” It was a timely capture; by the following day, the creatures had sunk to the bottom of the pitcher.

See some of our favorite captures below, and visit the contest’s website to view the Top 100 photographs of the year.

Andy Sands. "Slime Mold (Didymium Squamulosom) on Holly Leaf". Third Place Fungi Category Winner.

Angelo Richardson. "Sea in a Fan". Third Place Intimate Landscape Category Winner.

Marek Miś. “Batrachospermum Red Algae”. First Place Micro Category Winner

Pietro Cremone. “The Martian”. Third Place Underwater Category Winner.

Kate Jonker. “Beauty and the Beast”. Second Place Underwater Category Winner.

[nedsecondline]

Nature’s Diversity is Captured in Minuscule Detail in the 2022 Close-Up Photographer of the Year Competition | Colossal — MARY CALVO

Originally posted on msamba: JANUARY 8, 2023. KATE MOTHES Nathan Benstead, “Hemitrichia calyculata,” Young Category Winner. All images © the …Nature’s Diversity is Captured in Minuscule Detail in the 2022 Close-Up Photographer of the Year Competition | Colossal — MARY CALVO

[msamba]

Nature's Diversity is Captured in Minuscule Detail in the 2022 Close-Up Photographer of the Year Competition | Colossal

Nature’s Diversity is Captured in Minuscule Detail in the 2022 Close-Up Photographer of the Year Competition | Colossal

JANUARY 8, 2023. KATE MOTHES Nathan Benstead, “Hemitrichia calyculata,” Young Category Winner. All images © the photographers and Close-Up Photographer of the Year Now in its fourth year, the competition attracted more than 9,000 entries in nine categories from 54 countries. Among the winning images of the Close-Up Photographer of the Year contest, frilly slime mold stems from leaves, elegant…

[lionfloss]

Hemitrichia calyculata

[inaturalist-propaganda]

[ID: A photograph of a pretzel slime mold on a blackened log. The slime mold is golden red-brown in color, and looks like interconnected mini-pretzels sitting on top of the dark wood. End ID.]

Observation by nerush_vladimir