Never have I everrrr come across these before! Whelk egg casings! Found a few washed up on this week’s trip to the beach. Also found the back of some sort of crab, and a perfect Pyramid that someone built….it was too great to not immortalize in photo 🥰
Sometimes looking under the microscope at our sediment or algae samples from our ecology studies (I work at the University of Pisa, Italy) we find (sadly) some interesting and cool crab specimen, thought I'd share some of them with all you crab enjoyers. The species in the pictures are all found in the Mediterranean sea, near Italian shores.
Eurynome aspera
Ebalia tuberosa and Parthenopoides massena
Achaeus cranchii
Ebalia edwardsii
Parthenopoides massena
Ebalia tuberosa
we were out with friends earlier tonight who were telling us about the Halloween crabs on their property. I had never seen one, so I asked them to send me a picture when we got back. They did, and it was very cool looking. Not 15 minutes later we heard a scraping at our patio door, and look who came knocking…and got very close to getting in 😯
On the sandwich it’s self, is tartar sauce on a toasted brioche roll, topped with a salted tomato, lettuce and the crab cake
Saw this gorgeous crab and all of her babies crossing the street tonight. Is she a blue crab? There were several others crossing too. Kind of by puerto abrigo. I read that a big blue crab migration is coming up, but usually into the sea to have their babies. She was leaving the sea and walking towards the jungle. Why was she doing this?
Ngl it makes my skin crawl when i watch the video. What the heck is this?
My fiancée and I went to the beach in Destin, Florida and while she was tanning I was looking at the many little crab scurrying about and this little guy kept popping out of his hole, staring at me for a few seconds, and throwing sand in my direction and then hiding again. Is it threatening me because I was getting to close to it's territory?
I had to draw the shape on the picture because the only photo I took, it was kind of folded under. I've never seen this before. Is it normal? I googled crab with tail and it just comes up with horseshoe crabs. This is in the UK in the North East:)
This is my juvenile Halloween Moon Crab named Rob Zombie. I had to change his substrate and he finally finished molting so I took him out, cleaned out all the old soil, cleaned the tank, gave it a whole redesign, and let him explore! His colors are looking awesome, and he ate a big bowl of food to re-energize after molting :)
Weird Crab Sunday 🦀🎣🦞
Red Spotted Guard Crab
(Trapezia Crab)
On the reef around the island of Ta‘ū, American Samoa, a spotted guard crab defends its home and food source, a cauliflower coral, from predators and investigative camera lenses. [1]
NOAA's National Ocean Service
Public domain
Red Spotted Guard Crab
Steve Childs from Lancaster, UK. [2]
CC BY 2.0
Attribution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapezia\_(crab)#/media/File:Trapezia\_tigrina\_-\_Red\_Spotted\_Guard\_Crab.jpg
Some of the tiniest cutest little crabs I saw at the beach today 🥰 CT
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