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What’s blind, buoyant, and brainless? Bluebottles!

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They’re small, they’re blue, and they’re stingy, but they’re not a jelly fish! What are they? They’re bluebottles of course. They’re a prominent feature of summers spent by the beach, but what brings them to Australian beaches remains a bit of a mystery.

Join us in this episode as we chat to two ECRs, Kim and Maxime, who research the beautifully bizarre world of bluebottles.

For further information:

BluebottleWatch website – https://www.unsw.edu.au/science/our-schools/bees/our-research/bluebottlewatch

iNaturalist citizen science project – https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/bluebottles-in-australia-physalia-physalis