Bullia digitalis proboscis into the prey to suck up soft tissues. Often gathers in large numbers to feed on dead and stranded jellyfish and bluebottles. Various plough shells on the southern African coast look similar, including "Bullia rhodostoma" on the south coast and "Bullia natalensis" (pleated plough shell) on the coast of KwaZulu-Natal. "B. digitalis" however does not have pleated whorls like the pleated plough shell. All the common plough shells on the coast can only de differentiated for each other by their colour. Bullia digitalis Bullia digitalis, the finger plough shell or plough snail, is a species of sea snail, a
Radioactive contamination from the Rocky Flats Plant of substantial contamination from the 1957 plutonium fire until after the highly visible 1969 fire, when civilian monitoring teams confronted government officials with measurements made outside the plant of radioactive contamination suspected to be from the 1969 fire, which consumed hundreds of pounds of plutonium (850 kg). The 1969 fire raised public awareness of potential hazards posed by the plant and led to years of increasing citizen protests and demands for plant closure. Releases from previous years had not been reported publicly prior to the fire; airborne-become-groundborne radioactive contamination extending well beyond the Rocky Flats plant was not publicly reported