Okay, who started calling it the Thankless Snail? From what I just read it should really be called Unthanks Cave Snail. It comes from Unthanks Cave which was named for the previous landowner Mr. and/or Ms. Unthank.
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So its name is a case of wishful thinking by unsexy people? 
Well, it mentions some color that the NIV translates as blue ā 50 times: https://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?quicksearch=blue&version=NIV
Except that the āsea foamā in that meme isnāt green at all. Itās blue, actually intermediate between the āspindriftā and the turquoise. (Note no quotation marks around that last one, which actually should be above teal on that spectrum.)
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The common name makes sense, as it eats mile-a-minute weed (also called devilās tail). Have seen the plant here in South Korea but canāt recall ever coming across the weevil. (I just checked, no R. latipes observations on iNat for South Korea.)
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Popped into the thread to share Gymnosporangium clavariiforme, with the English common name āTongues of Fireā.
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Iām a a bit fond of:
Clearly, they hadnāt evolved until humans came along and built barns and fences 
Seems like all sides of the fence had to be built!
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I searched but didnāt find so far, any reference to this guy:
Which is, of course, Xenoturbella profunda.
Commonly (?) known as the purple sock. (If you live in the ocean deep off the Californian coast, I guess.)
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Fungi names are ridiculous,
my fav is definitely : dog vomit slime mold
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Thatās not a fungi though.)
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my apologies, I am still learning.
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No need to apologize, thatās a cool group!
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I think that makes it an even better fit for the topic since by common name alone itās assumed to be a Fungi rather than a Protozoa. I know I checked Taxonomy for Dog Vomit Slime Mold (Fuligo septica), just to learn what it was, if not fungi.
In the same theme, thereās also Dog Sick Slime Mold (Mucilago crustacea). What are naturalists who name these feeding their dogs?
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Grass or anything, it does look a lot like dog vomit tbh, itās acid and ferments that give it yellowish tint.
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Recently came across Naked Buckwheat (Eriogonum nudum) which is way too similar to buck naked, though not an animal.
Hey, I just added that one to my list the other day! My first slime mold too.
And then, same trip, I added a second slime mold species, the chocolate tube slime mold.
As far as variety of form, color and structures go, Marinaās right. A very cool group.
Those two were from the last trip just before I got a Tg-5, and I really regret that I missed getting a better shot than I now can.
However, when I went out again right after I got the new camera, the dog vomit one was still there, but no more chocolate tube (it was smack in the middle of a busy trail on the top of a stump, so I wasnāt too surprised that it had gone.)
But, the good news is that I think I found another much smaller chocolate specimen nearby with the distinctive thread structures just starting to form and just visibly detectable in the cameraās micro mode.
And I know that Iām getting a little tired about feeling so naive about this stuff, but whatās the protocol for whether or not to add a new observation of a species you just added in the same area days apart?
I can see why that could be a problem in the system. I mean, dandelions on my lawn come to mind. But this new photo is an interesting development shot and I canāt add it to the older obs as an additional image, as itās a different time stamp and slightly different location. Advice?
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Put links in the description/coments, use observation fields like āsimilar observation setā, both or one could work!
p.s. itās Marina as Maria is a name from another group.)
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Make a new observation and relate it back to the first post. I often track the development of observationsā¦ especially things that can change dramatically, like slime molds.
Even after watching an incredible PBS show on them (I think it was from the series Nova) I donāt understand them. But I have seen an incredibly large colony of it growing on low-lying wet ground.
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Dāoh! I may be new to observation protocols, but messing up peopleās names and faces has been a lifelong weakness for me. Thanks for the correction, and thanks to Marina too, who has been a big help in a lot of my baby-stepping here.
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Honestly, same. :D
I misread HumanByWeight & a few other users repeatedly, despite seeing them IDing and/or commenting on mine & othersā observations or on the forum repeatedly.
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