Sighting 4344848
3 Paddys River, ACT
Identification history
| Myxomycete - past plasmodial stage | 9 Jul 2021 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Unidentified | 11 Sep 2020 | Caric |
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User's notes
Coordinates not precise: Lyrebird/Cascades trail.
On a dead, burnt stump near a pool.
Unsure what these orange spheres are: animal, vegetable or fungus, but an ant seems to be tending them in the first photo so guessing they are ant eggs. No sap suckers hidden in the spheres seeing as the log is dead. There were many clusters of 'eggs' on the stump. Most were bright orange but one cluster more brown. Tried to take a sideways shot to show how they were attached. Note also that the circles on the 'eggs' are actually light reflected from the flash.
3 comments
JonLewis
wrote:
13 Sep 2020
Hi Caric, sorry, I can't quite see the ant well enough to do the ID. It is likely to be a Monomorium, but I can't be sure. Interesting to see it investigating the slime mould though. Thanks, Jon
MichaelMulvaney
wrote:
9 Jul 2021
I asked Teresa Van der Heul, whether they were slime moulds and she said "this is definitely a myxomycetes. Note those lovely white stems visible in the second shot, and the colour change from orange to brown; this will happen in just a few hours with some species. From the images shown I'm guessing this is either a Trichia or a Hemitrichia species. Most likely its Trichia decipiens! This has the quickest colour change in our area however, we need microscopic examination to obtain a positive identification.
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Location information
- Coordinates 148.889001-35.456833
- Maps Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve
- Places Paddys River, ACT
Sighting information
- 16 - 100 Abundance
- 6 Sep 2020 12:15 PM Recorded on
- Caric Recorded by
Additional information
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
- Unknown Gender
- Eggs Breeding behaviour
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- Myxomycete - past plasmodial stage Scientific name
- Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-Invasive
- Up to 1304.9m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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