"Rupert (W.Yorkshire)" writes

"Ade" wrote in message
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Ade wrote:
A very weird appearance on the soil in some pots. Very large blobs of
clear
jelly just sitting on the surface of the soil. Definitely not water
retaining gel. It almost looks like it's rained jelly!
Anyone know what these blobs might be?

Pixie spit. Sorry ... I will stop right now. Promise. No, I've no idea.
Too early for cuckoo's spit - still not jelly enough. How trully
strange. Which colour?

Totally clear in colour. It's not a solid, so I don't think it's a
fungus.
If you try to pick it up it just runs, exactly like a half-set jelly. I'm
going to take a closer look to see if it has any eggs in it. Do birds
throw
up jelly? I'll laugh if it turns out my daughter has thrown out her pots
of
jelly snacks that I bought her this week !!


The description would fit water snail egg jelly. The eggs are contained
inside a clear jelly. I have seen it occasionally on the surface of very
wet pots near the pond but never in very big blobs.
What does it taste like? :-)

Are they 'very large'? - I suppose that depends what the OP means by
'very large'

Our pond snails (3 species) don't produce anything more than an inch
long and quarter inch wide.

Can you get a transparent slime mould?

http://tinyurl.co.uk/ns2h

I can remember being out on the Yorkshire Dales when I suddenly became
unable to keep my footing - feet kept slipping our from under me. The
culprit was masses of clear (IIRC) jelly in amongst the grass, which i
assumed was slime mould. This was a few feet from the cliff edge of an
old quarry, so it wasn't funny!

Only other clear gelatinous thing I've found was some frogspawn on the
lawn of some old people's bungalows a couple of days after heavy rain.


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Kay