What the bloody hell is this creature in my outhouse?? [pic]

[CountryMummy1]

Just been outside the feed the cat who has his food in the outhouse. There, hanging from the old pipework are 3 absolutely huge cocoons. They are hideous! Black and more than 4 inches long. They weren't there yesterday. What the hell is going to come out? AIBU to be very worried?

The Midlands you say . off to check the shed...

Will nobody think of the cat.

Aaaaaarrrrgh! Can't stop clicking on this thread and looking at that 'thing'.
I must stop, I must stop, I must stop

Just looked at a text book (not done that for years!) a slime mould can form a dormant structure called a sclerotium. Which has a hard coating.

G'wan, chip it off.

Wearing safety protective gear of course.

soupdragon

NHM: it's fine, slime mold or something. Honest.

Dormant you say?

What happens when it wakes up?

Slime moulds are intelligent according to a documentary I once watched.

It looks like a fungus.

Can you ring the Council? Maybe speak to someone in environmental health? They're usually very knowledgeable and helpful.

Hiddenhome I shall not speak of its non dormant state.

posted from airport

You do realize that NHM ID team has gone to bed now seeing as we woke him/her up at 3am USA time to reply to this question.

He/she is probably, ah fuck 'em all, I'm off to bed, thought it would be something interesting but its just a fruiting body of a fungus ffs!!

This is NOT a thread I want to be reading over my soup.

If we can't nuke the Midlands, can we drop a massive dome over it, like Stephen King?

Either way, could somebody let me know as I have family in the Midlands and I'd like to say goodbye.

OMG YOU TOUCHED IT!

You need to see a priest

Please call The Doctor so he can take them back to their home planet. Once they hatch and find out we have pringles and red velvet cake, we're doomed.

highlighta why would they have gone to bed the reply was from NHM_London ?

The NHM id forum is ace. I've just spent ages looking at all the weird bugs and spiders.

Why would the NHM London be on USA time?

Uness they have relocated to the aforementioned safe site deep in a mountain on a different continent...

Place marking with a very long stick

one of these will hatch out in a day or two

Shamelessly place marking too although I wish I hadn't clicked on this post on taking my first mouthful of lunch

I'd have whacked it with a hammer by now...

I can't stop looking at it

Ohbollocks that's how it reproduces! It sucks you in, mesmorises you until you realise you can't be apart from it.

I bet you've PM'd the OP and asked where her address is already.

I have come over all peculiar........

OP, just a thought. Have you seen your cat today???

I seems like it was a reply from USA.... seeing as its USA spelling and time zone....

noddy not you too!