Monday, February 10, 2020
spores are yellow-brown and distinctly warted.
Commonly known as the tapioca slime mold, the species Brefeldia maxima is a nonparasitic Amoebozoan that looks, as you may have intuited from its name, like a slimy layer of white goo. It goes through a lot of interesting life phases, as do we all, but I want to highlight what they call the plasmodial phase, during which the whole damn thing is a single cell which can be like a yard across and weigh up to 40 pounds – a pale, brainless, soggy mass. They are most commonly found in forests after a rain, and in the United States Senate.
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Dear Dave:
Now consider the giant orange slug---Arion vulgaris---which emits copious amounts of mucus when disturbed, and possesses a rapacious appetite that includes eating dead or weaker individuals of its own species. More disturbing is its capacity to self-fertilize (just one can start a highly invasive infestation), a trait that has landed it on the list of the hundred worst alien species in Europe. Thus it’s been suggested that the giant orange slug be given top quarantine status here in the United States, and quickly: One has established itself in the White House.
We wish. That invasive thing in the White House is even nastier.
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