{"id":481911,"date":"2026-03-18T09:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T09:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/481911\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T09:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T09:27:08","slug":"large-numbers-of-sea-hares-in-guernsey-waters-not-unusual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/481911\/","title":{"rendered":"Large numbers of sea hares in Guernsey waters &#8216;not unusual&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Guernsey based scientist has encouraged islanders to report sightings of sea hares, after hundreds were spotted in island waters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The sea hares, often called sea slugs, were seen in large numbers by local residents around the QEII Marina, prompting questions on social media about a potential population boom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The sea hares are predominantly spotted sea hares, or Aplysia Punctata, and can grow up to 20cm (8ins) in length.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Liz Sweet, also known as the Guernsey Scientist, said the large numbers present in shallow waters around the island was &#8220;not that unusual.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Guernsey based scientist has encouraged islanders to report sightings of sea hares, after hundreds were spotted in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-481911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}