Travelling back from Cumbria in early February, I decided to stop off at Bolton-le-Sands at the top of Morecambe Bay to stretch my legs.

We all know the sort of damage slugs and snails can cause to our favourite garden plants.

Ian Killeen is currently surveying mussels, and has been for most of this summer, and so I have stepped in to put together this issue.

We are all familiar with the idea that scientific names provide a stable, universal way of referring to species.

I wrote in early editions of Mollusc World (6: 10; 8: 22) of the UK BAP review process, which was taking place nine years after the publication of the first BAP lists.