Trivial updates

 Slime still alive, has taken yeast pellets. Often moves away from food for no apparent reason.

Millipedes still overpopulating. I have thought up some tactics to encourage Original Adult (it still seems to be alive) to lay its eggs on the surface. By the way, for the record I am well aware that its life doesn't matter much in the grand scheme of things and that arthropods are possibly all unconscious anyways, but I shall nevertheless attempt to commit ethics at it for some reason.

Anyways, the juveniles grow quite rapidly. Here is the exterior of an egg nest and a nearly adult juvenile:

All juveniles I have are white. It seems very likely they do not become visibly colored until shortly after (or during the premolt/molt to) adulthood. So far it appears that none of the immatures have reached full size yet.

The misery is finally ending

 I am currently doing an ambitious project on Asterella californica's ecology! Somehow I'm even going to get electron microscope permissions, wew!

Right now I'm still in the "boring phase" of the experiment, but I did conclude that its absence from a Certain Restoration Site is in large part because the soil is too loose or has too many leaves (causes it to be smothered). The restoration staff adding so much mulch (again, fatal smothering) sure isn't helping the thing either.

Californian native gardeners in general use so much mulch and it pretty much kills cryptogams and tiny angiosperms wholesale. I've never seen natural mulches occupying any appreciably large areas in my area, even in log piles most of the litter is leaves instead of wood fragments.