crabs

Learn something about crabs...try to read...

The Ocean is full of interesting creatures. Here are some crabs. There are eight crabs: One is a craft show crab (the little guy up front) and then there is Claude the Beanie Baby crab and Digger the ty dyed Beanie Buddy on the left and the big orange fellow is Digger the Beanie Buddy and Digger the Beanie Baby red crab. We also have a little purple shore crab from Wild Republic and the pink crab below is Elmira from Douglas. The blue-legged crab is Buster, also from Douglas. Crabs and lobsters are crustaceans (Crustacea). There are 26,000 species in the world. Most of them live in or near saltwater. They have jointed legs, two pairs of antennae and an external skeleton. The skeleton is molted periodically.

The light blue ghost crab (Ocypode quadrata) blends in with the white sand on a cloudy afternoon or evening. On sunny days its shadow and its black eyes on long stalks are easily seen and the animal will remain hidden until nightfall. Large numbers of ghost crabs live on the sandy beaches of the Atlantic coast from New Jersey to Florida. They live in the sand dunes and dig burrows in the sand on the seashore side of the dunes, which are just out of reach of the high tide.

Here are three lobsters. At left is Pinchers the Beanie Baby, then another lobster from the Stuffed Animal House and the last little lobster is from Ganz and is a Soft Spot with sound.