Freshwater Biological Association

The Freshwater Biological Association now has a presence on both the Twitter and Facebook social networking sites. Both of the new accounts will be linked to the FBA's new news blog, which is now available to the public on the FBA's new website.

Dikerogammarus villosus (often referred to as the killer shrimp) is an amphipod native to south-eastern Europe, which has recently spread to western Europe. In September 2010 it was found in Grafham Water, Cambridgeshire.