this is why I don’t go in the cellar
October 21, 2007 11 Comments
Well, ONE of the reasons I don’t go in the cellar.
Found this… this… this… I-don’t-know-WHAT coming up from under the cellar floor today.
WTF?!?!?!
They’re creepy, they’re gross, and I want them GONE.
Until then, the cellar door remains bolted.
p.s. Any identification and/or eradication tips gratefully accepted, as long as they don’t involve getting close to them, or, God forbid, TOUCHING them.
UPDATE: Wicked Smaht flickr users Pete&NoeWoods have identified it as a fungus with a name as disgusting as it looks:
This is Xylaria polymorpha, a fungus. When you hear the common name you really won’t want to go into your basement: “Dead Man’s Fingers”.
Nice. How…seasonal.
No suggestions on how to eradicate it, but I’m thinking remote control chainsaw.
Or napalm.
Meanwhile, the basement remains in lock-down.
Come on, Kelly! The thing in the lower right has two white eyes and it is smiling friendly. They cannot be that bad!
Could they be stinkhorns?
Don’t want to ask you to go down there again, but…
do they smell bad?
Dead Man’s Fingers grows on rotting tree stumps. Do you have a rotting tree under your basement floor? If not, I’d suspect you have subterranean leaches. They’re harmless as long as you don’t get close enough for them to attach to your body.
By the way, have you seen any babies yet? You’ll know them when you see them, they move around like inch-worms.
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This is a great opportunity for some macro photography. You should get back down there.
Thanks, Whitey. Napalm it is, then.
Andy: Macro, my ass. YOU go down there and get up close and personal with my pet fungi/leeches.
I’m waiting for air support.
Why are you so afraid of something that is so much smaller than you? And harmless if you stay a couple of inches away from it?
Erk erk & erk. They look disgusting. Maybe you could put them in a pot for lucky trick or treaters in a few days time.
That even grosses ME out.
Ei, you haven’t told us that you have adopted another pet
Good luck with the extermination! Looks really scary!
whatever it is don’t touch it it looks gross.
ps.keep your childrn away if you have some