I found this little snail, slug, grazing on some small bracket fungi that were growing on a decaying log. Though this is not unusual, snails seem to prefer fungi, they also tend to relish the flavor of myxomycetes. That is why one day you find them in one spot and the next they are gone. However one thing that is unusual, from what I have read about snails and fungi, they usually, the snails, feed at night.
Continuing on with my little excursion, I ran across where a tree had fallen, the park service has been clearing away fallen limbs and trees from the newly built trails at Curtis Creek , most of them, the trails, are really nice, in that they are wheel chair accessible and made of finished concrete. Anyway a section of the rotting tree had been cut away and the bark had peeled away from the wood, revealing what appears to be a fungus of some sort or maybe even a plasmodium which was wintering over. The plasmodia of myxomycetes will harbor beneath the bark of rotting trees and usually form a hardened structure called a sclerotium. When conditions improve the sclerotium reverts back to a plasmoidum once more and the process of fruitificaiton resumes. Could this be a plasmodium or just a regular or normal blob of fungi, of some sort?
