Soft shell blue claw crabs, or shedder crabs, must be at least 3.5 inches from point to point and there is a limit of one ...

Smooth box crabs (Calappa calappa) are also known as red ... claws. Both of these features can get in the way when they are trying to mate. Therefore, most crabs only mate while they are molting.

USUALLY STILL ALIVE Fortunately, these weren't dead animals. Like other arthropods, horseshoe crabs grow by molting their old ... also noticed the molts of blue claw crabs, spider crabs and ...

the legs that hold their claws, though females have wider abdomens to hold their eggs. These slow-moving crabs don’t hunt, preferring to scavenge for dead animal or plant matter, though they may ...

MUKILTEO — State biologists reassure community members that what appears to be dead crabs littering beaches ... a location where Dungeness crab molt shells have accumulated many times in the ...

I’m working with local people to create rocky microhabitats and artificial wetlands for the red-clawed crabs to live in. They’re important scavengers — eating dead animals and other organic ...

When a molt cycle begins, tiny limb buds form where a leg or a claw has been lost. Over the next six to eight weeks, the buds enlarge while the crab reabsorbs calcium from its old shell and secretes a ...