Kutub Uddin’s Image
Kutub Uddin (Bangladesh/UK) spots a line of alien-like slime moulds on a fallen tree.
Kutub found these blueberry-like spheres in Slindon Wood, West Sussex, UK.
They’re the reproductive parts of a slime mould, each just 1–2 millimetres in diameter.
His image resembles a fantasy landscape. However, he describes the scene as a “bizarre family portrait”, complete with a tiny yellow insect egg.
A slime mould is a community of mobile single-celled, amoeba-like organisms.
The organisms live independently until they come together and work as one to find food and reproduce.