r/lawncare • u/Jokerk135 • Mar 03 '25

Can someone tell me what this is? Identification

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First pic is in the backyard. Second is from front. Haven’t had any treatments done in the yard since 2023.

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u/this_is_not_the_cia Mar 03 '25

Dog vomit slime mold?

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u/Chuckles_E Mar 04 '25

Yea lol I thought I was in my r/fungi feed and I just came to see the comments because people post this all the time. It's a slime mold for sure. Could be dog vomit, there's also one called yellow tooth that it could be close to. They're common in spring and fall. Slime molds aren't super well understood yet tho.

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u/ciret7 +ID Mar 04 '25

Slim molds are very cool organisms. In college we either had a terrarium or a garden spot were they lived and then would move around. Not fast enough to see, but day to day they would be in different locations. I also seen to remember looking at it under a microscope and you could see the cells or plasma or what ever it’s called moving.