Green mold and flaking paint in 2022. — “Unidentified slime” and “an abundance of insects” in 2023. — A puddle of “blood, debris and trash” in 2024. Boar's Head officials said in ...

Slime molds are like nothing else on earth ... As we peer through our loupes, we watch helplessly as a pack of fuzzy insect larvae feast on the hapless fruiting bodies of Hemitrichia calyculata.

It has the name stinkhorn because the slime has a foul odour which attracts flies. Insects land on the slime to gobble it up. At the same time, their feet are covered with stinkhole spores to be ...