Scanning electron micrograph of a filter feeding appendage (cirri) from a goose barnacle (Lepas). Goose barnacles are non-motile crustaceans that live in the sea attached to rocks and floating objects ...

In Finland, barnacle geese are responsible for most of the agricultural damage caused by protected species, and the Finnish government pays annually up to €4 million in compensation to farmers ...

In 2022, a roll of barnacles of similar size appeared on a beach in Gwynedd, in the northwest of Wales, and was said to be worth a whopping £4,000. Goose barnacles live attached to various ...

How to identify gooseneck barnacles. Goose barnacles are unmistakable. They grow in dense clusters on flotsam, with delicate chalky white shells anchored to the object by a fleshy black stalk (or ...

The buoy barnacle is palish purple in colour. It was once thought that barnacle geese hatched from goose barnacles. When two barnacle geese turned up in Scotland, people wondered where they had come ...