We’d need to see the byproducts alight, though… A match does work!
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That’s how I got my virus observation.
Does this also apply to methane-producing organisms in, say, salt marsh mud?
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Hmm, Wikipedia says it’s now Saccharolobus (since 2018) - anyone curating Archaea?
I have 3 kingdoms: Plantae, Bacteria and Animalia.
I have only theese kingdoms left: Viruses
Archaea
Chromista
Protozoa
I mean 4 kingdoms:
Bacteria,
Fungi,
Plantae, and
Animalia
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Yes, look for myxomycetes to cover Protozoa. You can rather easily find them on well rotted logs in the woods. Common species are Lycogala epidendrum, Stemonitis, Physarum, Arcyria…
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Fixed the link above
I have a cold (virus, check) I have microorganisms in my room (archaea check) I have bacteria all over my room (we all do) I have fungi, plants and animals, as well as brain eating amoeba in my pond (they live in all warm water, but as long as you don’t snort them, all is well)
Therefore, I have all of these things.
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Closest GBIF occurences I could find to where I think you are roughly is across the frontier in Finland. Predominantly Halobacteriota
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weirdly, after looking for existing obs of viruses in UK, I stepped outside my door and within 5 minutes found what I imagine must be Dinocampus coccinellae paralysis virus on a ladybird.
funny I´ve not come across it before today, I´ve documented a good number of ladybirds
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i think so. my understanding is that methanogens (aka methane-producing archaea) are the only significant biological producers of methane. so swamp gas would definitely be a way to indirectly observe archaea.
Methanobrevibacter smithii should be the predominant methanogen in human guts, and there are no observations in iNaturalist for it yet. so someone please eat up to 239 beans and then observe!
although potentially hilarious, i’m told this can be dangerous. so i can’t recommend direct gas combustion as a means of methane detection. however, there are relatively cheap devices available that can detect methane or natural gas.
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Also I’ll have to check through old photos to check if I have anything else
This reminds me of something I came up with to celebrate the incredible biodiversity around us. It’s pretty simple: tally up all the types of life you’ve seen. You get one point for each unique species, two points for each genus, 3 points for a family, 4 points for an order, 5 points for a class, 10 points for a phylum, and 20 for a kingdom. Add them all up and see what you get (made easier with iNaturalist)!
I like this because 1) it’s pretty fun (what other reason do you need)? and 2) because it incentivizes looking for creatures that are evolutionary different from what we’ve seen before. For me, that means looking for things like freshwater sponges, marine worms, new plant families, and new kingdoms like in this thread. It’s a great excuse to explore the diversity of the world around us. By exploring nature with this general idea in the back of my mind, I’ve seen many amazing and bizarre creatures I would have never known existed otherwise.
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I’ve only done it a couple of times when I was much, much younger. It’s a scream, but yeah, possibly dangerous!
What about other animals, I think we have enough vids with pets and their gases? Something could be posted.
I have all of them!
Plantae: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/60865861- Utricularia purpurea
Animalia: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/50197804- Zalophus wollebaeki
Fungi: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/55396000- Laetiporus cincinnatus
Protozoa: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/63436200- Lycogala epidendrum
Chromista: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/53884962- Fucus vesiculosus
Bacteria: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/56794986- Erwinia amylovora
Viruses: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/56762657- Pokeweed mosaic virus
Archaea: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/56075324- Kingdom Archaea
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Viruses - Avipoxvirus 
Archaea
Bacteria
Chromista
Protozoa - Dog Vomit Slime Mold
Fungi
Plantae
Animalia
Looks like I need to start looking high and low for some new things, or get a microscope!!
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I have Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protozoa, and Chromista. Don’t know how to get the first three without a microscope, haha.
Chromista is pretty easy- kelp. I have a few slime mold observations for Protozoa, they like damp environments. Only problem is barely anyone IDs them- out of 13 I only have four that got to be research grade and they’re all members of the same species (I usually don’t feel comfortable IDing slime molds more specific than phylum, even then sometimes I get confused with slime fungi…)
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