Devil Crab – Necora puber

Devil Crab – Necora puber

Brace yourselves, if you’ve read any of my other posts and think they personify species too much then your going to want to stop reading now, because the devil crab is my ABSOLUTE FAVOURITE SPECIES and this will pretty much be a personified ode to their...
European Sea Bass –  Dicentrarchus labrax

European Sea Bass – Dicentrarchus labrax

Having been an angler for most of my life, the european sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax ) was one of the first fish I fell in love with. This was a fish that always felt bigger than it was on the line because there so damn feisty (and by now people should know I love...
Slipper Limpet – Crepidula fornicata

Slipper Limpet – Crepidula fornicata

Slipper limpets, are weird… very weird. Normally I rave about limpets, and maybe it is because they are invasive, but I’m defiantly leaning towards thinking there just plain odd. Firstly, they very clingy, and don’t want to live on their own. This...
Five-bearded rockling- Ciliata mustela

Five-bearded rockling- Ciliata mustela

Now when you think of fish, I’m sure beards do not instantly spring to mind. Let alone when you think of a fish that has 5 of them. Well, meet the five bearded rockling, which does in fact have 5 beards … I imagine it takes them quite a while to get ready...
Isopods (Idotea chelipes)

Isopods (Idotea chelipes)

On the rocky shore we can often get distracted with crazy crabs, the fabulous fish or the amazing anemones (who said learning alteration in GCSE English would be useless… Ay?!). But the rocky shore and all marine habitats are so much more than just the obvious...