Crabs

No, Spiders are Arachnids and Crabs are crustations.

I have been crabbing for 30 years and have caught a lot of crab, the biggest one I have ever measured is a hair under nine inches. A hair is about a millimetre in my books. I have heard of people saying they have caught them over 10 inches but I don't believe it.

Yes, but only 8 of those are used for walking. The other two, (i.e. pincers) are used for defence and eating.

Well you would have to say they have claws and are coloured in red or orange and obviesly they both live in the sea but some are fresh water.

Juan Tamad was asked by his mother to buy crabs from the market. On his way home, he got lazy and decided to sleep under a tree. He then set the crabs free, saying to them, "Go ahead and go home. I will just rest for a while under this tree."

When he got home after he woke up from his nap, his mother asked where the crabs were. He was surprised and told her, "Are they not home yet? I sent them ahead so you can cook them already."

Juan Tamad's mother got mad and pinched his ears. "You are a good-for-nothing lazy boy!"

In the Chesapeake bay, blue crabs eat and mate.

Each female fly can lay approximately 500 eggs in several batches of about 75 to 150 eggs.Â

Spider crabs reproduce sexually, the same as normal crabs

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I saw some people eating marsh crabs (whole) on Iron Chef. They were tiny and cooked as part of a dish. I believe these are related to fiddler crabs. I also found a recipe if you are interested:

Fiddler Crab a la Nero

Source: McCall's Coast to Coast Cooking

1/4 cup butter or margarine

1 pound king crab meat

1 (4 ounce) can pimientos drained and halved

2 tablespoons snipped chives

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon paprika

1/2 cup canned beef gravy

1/2 cup heavy cream

1/3 cup cognac

Cooked white rice

Melt butter in chafing dish or medium skillet. Arrange the crabmeat around edge of dish. Place pimientos in center. Sprinkle pimientos with chives. Sprinkle crabmeat with salt and paprika. Add gravy and cream. Cook over low heat, until mixture is heated through, stirring crabmeat gently to keep pieces as whole as possible.

Warm cognac in small saucepan. Ignite with match. Pour flaming, into crabmeat mixture.

Serve over rice.

Makes 4 servings.

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About how many eggs does a female crab produce

They have 2 eyes, and 10 legs. They use the back 8 legs to move, and THEIR left (bigger) claw for fighting and climbing. They use their right one for eating mainly. They also have a shell, which is their home. They will move to a slightly bigger shell once they are have got grown alittle, or they have molted.

The best diet for a land hermit crab is basically what you feed yourself (with the exclusion of highly-processed foods and sugary snacks, of course). Land hermit crabs are omnivorous and therefore eat just about anything. You can feed them meat, fish, vegetables and fruit (yes even citrus fruit!). Crabs also like tannin-rich foods, such as oak leaves and tree bark. Before giving your crabs these things as food, make sure they are thoroughly cleaned by washing in water (no soap) and allowed to dry -- crabs like their leaves crunchy. Hermit crabs love try different foods. In fact a study found that they prefer to have a different food each time they eat. Of course, this isn't always possible, but you should offer your crab a variety of foods. Some other foods your crab should enjoy are: • Fruit, especially tropical fruits such as the crabs would find in their native habitat: mangoes, coconuts and papayas. Just be careful they don't get ahold of any fruit "pits." • Vegetables of all kinds • Meat. Make sure it is well-cooked and that there is no sauce or butter on the meat that could cause them problems. In particular, hermit crabs like to pick meat off of bones. They also enjoy steamed shrimp tails and any sort of dead crustacean. Yes, they are cannibals, it is a studied and proven fact. It is recommended that meat be put into the crabitat at night and removed in the morning to discourage flies and other, unwanted scavengers from visiting the crabitat. • Nuts, applesauce, raisins, trail mix, peanut butter, honey, cooked egg, cereal, crackers, washed grass, and popcorn are some of the miscellaneous favorites people have reported their crabs enjoying. • Dairy foods may be given to the crabs in small amounts and not too often.

Some people notice their crabs are partial to 'junk food' such a corn chips, sugary cereals and pretzels. Though they may like these foods, they should of course be limited to occasional treats. Glad I could be of help!!!

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by their jaws because when they pick up the food they put the food in their jaws which is really their mouth

Yes, crabs are apart of the phylum Annelida

Traditionally above the front door, but must have the ends pointing up or your luck runs out...

they eat the reamans of baloga whahle, dead fish and kelp

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Cardisoma armatum is land crab which could live out of water without problems. But necessary is high level of humidity and shallow pot with water for drinking and washing gills too.

Yes, they are called mites, if you dont change your food or they some how get in they can pester your hermies to a point where they leave their shells and die. so to get rid of them please follow the link below.

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crabs don't have scales there mammals and they lay eggs

Um... Yea, I've got a sand crab... They didn't sell crab food in the pet store anymore cause the sold all their sand crabs to the other pet store... So I decided to see if it'll eat fish food instead & yea it ate all of it until it was satisfied but I feed it while it was underwater cause I fed it goldfish food (flakes)

It is important to note that, as a scavenger that is harvested out of the wild, hermit crabs can very easily be toxic, and certainly unpleasant to eat, much like seagulls or pigeons. Anything a scavenger eats, you eat too, if you eat the scavenger. And scavengers are far less picky then humans, and far more hardy against disease and toxins. Scavengers also often have parasites that, while relativly harmless to them, could be dangerous to other species.

Hermit crabs have almost no "meat." If you have ever seen a lobster being eaten, you can see how little can be consumed. And the Chitin that makes up the hard outer skin of the crab is, by design, immensely tough and therefor inedible.

So, in theory, while a Hermit Crab could be consumed, it would be a disgusting and potentially dangerous meal that provides no nutritional value. This is not including the fact that the process of preparing the crab to be eaten would be immensely cruel to the crab.