THIS picture of a Strawberry Worm (Eupolymnia nebulosa) has been taken by Mike Puleston, a marine naturalist and a member of the Shores of South Devon group at Firestone Bay.

Mike says: ‘This species of burrowing worm is a member of a large family known as the Terebedllidae or commonly as Terebellid worms. This species in English is known as a Strawberry Worm due to its reddish orange body colouration and white spots.

‘It has a Global distribution from Antarctica, The Atlantic, The Mediterranean and the Pacific Oceans. It is found all around the UK on a variety of shores usually under flat stones or in crevices and in sediment between stones as in the individual pictured found in Plymouth. An occasional find although not common.