How to identify slime molds

[jasonhernandez74]

@sarahlloyd

One of the problems with identifying even the common species is that they change shape and colour as they develop and progress from the plasmodium to the fruiting body stage. If people post only one photo that captures one moment in the development of a slime mould, it makes it very difficult to identify.

Well, seeing as that is standard iNat procedure – one organism at one moment in time – that raises a question: if the “time lapse” series are linked via comments, would that help to get all of them identified? I ask because that didn’t work with a moth.