Feeding Activities of Slugs on Myxomycetes and Macrofungi

Abstract

molds have two stages that may develop into a large enough mass to serve as a potential food source for animals. The plasmodium is a soft, flattened sheet of acellular protoplasm capable of migrating, feeding, and growing up to several meters in length along the surface of decaying logs and leaf litter. Under ideal conditions fruiting bodies that develop from the plasmodial stage may form a single cushion shaped aethalium up to 74 cm across or thousands of individual sporangia less than 1 mm in diameter that may