Plaice – Pleuronectes platessa

Plaice – Pleuronectes platessa

Plaice – Pleuronectes platessa Where is your plaice in the world? On the rockyshore! Thats because rockyshore are great nursery grounds for baby flatfish – so if you head down to the shore late spring to summer, and just watch the sand in the bottom of...
Isopods

Isopods

Isopods  Remeber woodlice? Those bugs that roll up in a ball you find in the garden? We used to call the pealy bugs – I know theres lots of different names. Well actually, that is one of the few species of Isopods that DON’T live in the sea, there are...
Hydroids

Hydroids

Hydroids You are unlikely to be able to tell the different species of hydriods on the rockyshore, without taking them back to a lab with a good microscope, so I have grouped them together. So what even is a hydroid? Well if I said the words ‘jellyfish...
Hermit Crab – Pagarus bernhardus

Hermit Crab – Pagarus bernhardus

Hermit Crab – Pagarus bernhardus WHAT LITTLE LOVELIES! Hermit crabs bring pure joy to anyone who finds them rockpooling – the East coast of the UK seems to always be particulary full of them too. Not true crabs, these little creatures need to find shells...