Now....what's all this I hear about crustaceans hijacking airplanes?

It's pretty horrific to think that this precipitous decline is being measured in reserves in a country with some of the stricter regulations on toxins.

Since you've noticed such a decline in insects where you are, have you noticed a corresponding increase in pill bugs (really crustaceans)? I have here in N Cali

Hedgehogs are immune to crustacean influence, unless butter sauce is applied.

I, for one, welcome our new crustacean overlords.

Mantis shrimp is my favorite marine crustacean!!

but let's assume it is a bottom dwelling creature. did they all get together at a starbucks and decide to hit hawaii for spring break?

the actions of the species is written into it's genetics. for it to suddenly move it's entire habitat, a genetic change would have had to occur ie: new instructions. that change is a mutation.

but looking at the crab, it looks like a creature that dwells near the surface. It does not resemble a deep water crustacean, at least not in my experience. Which means, it could be a new species. which means a mutation of another species.

I think it's more likely a displaced population of some foreign crustacean (made even more ambiguous by being larval), either deep-sea or swept (maybe even migrated due to environmental change) from somewhere else.

I'm late to the party! I called it Arthropodology because I thought we should have a channel for insects, spiders, crustaceans and anything that matches the description. But is was more tooled towards arachnids, and insects.

Sure we can call it bugs, or creepy-crawlies, whatever. I was just taking a stab in the dark.

On second thought, maybe bugs is ok. I thought it was two broad, when I was reading the channel name instructions.

Will there be crustaceans in love?

^and tied to fresh crustacean live and squirming yumminess,which is no bullshit!

Great. Help out some mammals and birds.

But fuck the fish. And fuck the crustaceans. And fuck everything else that lives in the Gulf waters. I guess they're not considered 'wildlife.'

Fuck CNN.

Okay, who hired the crustacean stripper?

I'm a pretty lefty Canadian, but come on, why don't you take those cameras through a place that processes chicken or cow meat? There's a ton of reasons of why the seal hunt is good, and about two or three as to why it's bad. If it keeps the cod stock in balance, and it provides a stable income for first nations families, then how is it any different than any other hunting or fishing?

I'm sure no one minds the way fish and crab are hauled out of the ocean and suffocated or crushed under the weight their fellow crustaceans =P

>> ^grinter:
It would also be good to note that these aren't shrimp. They're amphipods; a very diverse group in their own right. Crustaceans, but more closely related to krill.


So lets pull another krill on the barbe!