Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wet Nostoc commune, aka star jelly. CINCINNATI – Springtime weather brings beautiful flowers, trees and ... dark green, rubbery ...

Springtime weather brings beautiful flowers, trees and ... dark green, rubbery blobs? If you've spotted any alien-looking, gelatinous globs in your yard, chances are you've stumbled across Nostoc ...

DAYTON — As it is said, April showers bring May flowers, but it also brings a jelly-like mass to yards. The jelly-like mass is an organism called the Nostoc commune and thrives in wet conditions.

Blobs of strange, sometimes repellent, substances, appearing suddenly on the ground, have puzzled people for much of history. Queries to “Eye on Nature” often offer three separate examples. In times ...

Have you heard of Nostoc? It's scientific name, Nostoc commune, sounds like a chat between Trump and Putin but it’s actually a living organism that troubles more than a few Kiwis on their quarter acre ...

Allendale, Northumberland: These strange, alien blobs are nostoc, and they are doing well in the valley at the moment, when little else is After several nights of -7C here in this north Pennine valley ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nostoc commune, also called star jelly, appears greenish and rubbery when wet. Springtime weather brings beautiful flowers, trees ...