1. It appears to be getting bigger.
2. It is located on the dead stuff columns and jars that are damp or wet. There's really no fuzzy stuff on the investigations that were going on under the heat lamp or in the fan.
3. The fuzzy stuff is all kids of colors--we saw grey, white, blue, green, and even some pink fuzzy stuff.
This made us wonder..."What is that fuzzy stuff and what is it doing?"
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Of course we needed to develop some models to explain this, and a student couldn't have said it better when she said, "Hey--this is just like the badger and the larvae and the worms and the dead plants!"
We're still not certainly convinced of all this, and not everyone saw mold appear. So we agreed that maybe we can figure some more things out if we use another organism that eats dead stuff. Who could that be?
US!