Article 3WS5S Warm weather brings freshwater jellyfish to Cheshire canal

Warm weather brings freshwater jellyfish to Cheshire canal

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Patrick Barkham
from Environment | The Guardian on (#3WS5S)

Tiny jellyfish species normally found in the Yangtze basin in China sighted in British canal

First came the wasps, exotic sharks and marauding seagulls. Now the long hot summer has revealed another initially alarm-inducing animal in British waters - or more precisely, in the Middlewich branch of the Shropshire Union Canal.

Freshwater jellyfish normally native to the Yangtze basin in China have been spotted swimming in the waters near Bridge 23 of the canal between Middlewich and Winsford, according to the Canal & River Trust.

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