What is it and what put it there??

[weekender]

Having a wander last week and come across this in a fallen tree I was about to sit on....?

Anyone? I would love too know I'm fascinated.


Sent from somewhere?

 

[Toddy]

Not a clue; it looks like those watergel bead things though

M

 

[bobnewboy]

Toad spawn?

 

[lou1661]

looks a bit similar to slug eggs, but not ever seen any with that green tinge before.

Louis

 

[Jack Bounder]

Might be Cyanobacteria or slime mould?

 

[spandit]

How big are they? Could they be moth eggs?

 

[weekender]

I would say they were about the size of garden peas, not sure it shows in the pics but they were a real fluorescent green... Never seen it before???


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[Joonsy]

Leopard slug eggs ? --- leopard slugs climb trees to mate. The eggs are about 5mm but the colour seems too bright.

 

[weekender]

It was a fallen and quite rotten pine log/tree if that helps..?


Sent from somewhere?

 

[cranmere]

I found something similar but it's on Pinterest and won't let me take a closer look unless I register with them. There seem to be some kinds of tree frogs that lay bright green eggs so possibly a frog or toad.

 

[Toddy]

I use Pinterest, cranmere; it's not like facebook or other social medias. I use it to store images that I use like an ideas/inspiration book. It's been no bother at all.

M

 

[mountainm]

Me too. I have boards on leather fossils, knotwork and knives

 

[Robson Valley]

I hope that you can go back and find those things again and again.
If they are eggs, they are transparent enough that you should see signs of embryo development, as is the case with frog & snail eggs.
Large slugs are large, homeless snails, anyway. Possible.

 

[weekender]

Yeah I will, I'm intrigued.


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[Geoff Dann]

Might be Cyanobacteria or slime mould?

Slime moulds aren't green. Cyanobactaria? Yes, I think so. Nostoc commune or something not too distantly related.

Edible!

 

[DurhamBushcrafter]

Its quite obvious! Alien eggs...the invasion has started...we are doomed..doomed I tell ya!

 

[weekender]

Went back to have another look seems badgers may have eaten them...?!


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[Damascus]

They have hatched, the aliens are among us, aaaaaaarg run for the hills, oops not many round here!!!

 

[Jack Bounder]

Slime moulds aren't green. Cyanobactaria? Yes, I think so. Nostoc commune or something not too distantly related.

Edible!

Greenish slime mould

 

[Robson Valley]

JB: I'm convinced that your pic #1 is eggs. From which animal no idea, likely an invertebrate.
Slime molds are exactly that = slimy, amorphous, multinucleate, pulsing, living "things."
Pic #2 could be a foliose lichen. We have several local ones of that color but different structures.