Slime Molds and Their Friends and Feeders

Slime molds offer shelter, breeding places and nests for various species of insect including beetles and flies. A number of fungi species only occur in association with slime molds - they are mixomicyticulus. In Mexico and Ecuador, human populations use certain species of slime molds for food,. fried, often with eggs, and for medicine, wound healing. Slimes of invertebrates feed on slime molds, lots of slime mold feed on other organisms. Springtails, columbula, are closely associated with the slime molds and might only exist because of this relationship. These mesophorna or soil animals are the engineers of the earth, the carers and producers