(Photo courtesy LAURA PHILLIPS)
“While kayaking on Shepherd Lake we encountered dozens of gelatinous blobs, up to a foot long, wrapped around plant stems,” wrote Laura Phillips in submitting this Best Shot. “They turned out to “bryozoans,” colonies of tiny animals (“zoids”) that build a blob and filter nutrients from the water. This slimy beauty is called “Pectinatella Magnifica.” If you have a picture you would like to see run as a Best Shot or I Took The Bee send it in to the Bonner County Daily Bee, P.O. Box 159, Sandpoint, Idaho, 83864; or drop…