I ran out of time tonight, but I'll leave you with a couple of mystery photos to ponder. I'll post more photos and information about them tomorrow night.
We noticed these blue-gray patches on a few Sea Palms (Postelsia palmaeformis) that had drifted and then washed up on Salmon Creek Beach on 15 May 2015.
Can you guess what the patches are?
Here's another clue —
well, at least it's a close-up that reveals a little bit more:
Tune in tomorrow for the answer!
3 comments:
Lepas cyprids?
Score one for Matt Robart!
I'll explain more tonight, but Matt guessed correctly -- these are very dense patches of pelagic barnacle cyprids (the settling stage). Lepas is the genus.
Sweet, those 1000s of hours on a scope have finally paid off!
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