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Not sure where to begin, but yesterday I noticed this gross yellow slime growing in my cedar mulch, right next to an Alberta Spruce. I was not feeling well at all, so I just left it there and decided to just observe it and try to learn from it.
Well, this morning I woke up, and another huge patch of yellow slime had grown in another bed (overnight!), and when I looked at the first blob of mold, not only was it still as yellow and slimy as the day before, but it appeared to have what looked like drops of blood red goo oozing and tearing from it!
I looked it up - here's a pic and some info, though mine is much cooler - (apparently nobody else's 'bleeds' blood) - it's called "dog vomit slime mold".
Whatever it is, it looks interesting and I'm wondering what effect it might have on my Lyme - positive or negative. Will it make me sicker?
If you scroll the link above, apparently it is not a true fungus.
I touched it - it is definitely slimy, but some of it seems to be turning powdery now. The blood red 'bleeding' has ceased, and now those once bloody areas appear green-grey and powdery, though the rest of it remains yellow.
Will it hurt me to breathe it?
If anything would cure Lyme though, this would be it. I'm just worried because I have no immune system.
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The website said: There is no known danger to humans or other animals from inhaling the spores or ingesting this organism
So why bother chancing it?? It's a fungus for gosh sakes I would not want to breathe in mold spores when I'm so imunne compromised!!!
Poo yucky!!!
Gail
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I'm worried - it apparently crawls along and digests organic matter. I'm almost tempted to swallow some to see if it would devour my Lyme, babesia, bartonella, etc...
But you're right - who really knows what it would do to me;)
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so facinating, yet so gross!!!
Tailz you sure do have an interesting life!
I have never seen this stuff.
I wouldnt eat it, you dont need another health problem.
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It would probably eat all the GOOD organic material and not the bacteria you want it to...
PLEASE DON'T EAT IT. Gosh no experiments!!! I will come to Kutztown, don't make me!!!.....teeheeee!!!
Do you know Scot Horst on main st??....i probably asked this before........Good friend of ours......
Gail
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What's really scary is that this grew in my yard several years ago - at a different address.
And this is interesting - malaria and dog vomit slime mold both belong to the kingdom "protista" - I wonder if that's good news or bad news?
Green algae grows in masses that form slick, green scum on pond surfaces. Its ancestors from 500 million years ago probably gave rise to today's multicellular plants.
Plasmodium vivax, the parasite that causes malaria, lives part of its life cycle in mosquitoes and the other part in human hosts where it infects and ruptures blood cells in large numbers.
Phytophthora infestans is the water mold responsible for the Great Potato Famine that killed nearly a million people in Ireland in 1846-1847.
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The more I read though, the more I think that none of these bugs I'm harboring were ever meant to harm me.
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No, I don't know Scott - but he can come visit me and my dog vomit slime mold though;)
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Just to clarify - the 'bleeding' is the 10th picture down (scroll):
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I have had the same dog vomit slime in my mulch too......although i've not see YET this year!!
Cross your fingers I just put down some cedar mulch too!!
Scot will not WANT to come see yur dog vomit....He probably has his own too!!!
Gail
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Clorox it.
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Don't do anything to it. It is normal mold found in mulch, and it may even come up again next year. The sun will dry it out.
You should never pour bleach/clorox on mold, because the mold will immediately release spores and you will get more mold along with the possibility of breathing the spores in yourself.
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