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They can live up to 100 years, and with all their limbs spread out they are about 12 feet long and 15 inches wide

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What are the enemies of the Japanese Spider Crab?

The main enemies of the Japanese Spider Crab are octopuses, large fish, and occasionally humans who catch them for food. These crabs have a hard exoskeleton which provides protection against predators, but they are still vulnerable during molting when their shells are soft.


Where Do Crab Spiders Live?

Most crab Spiders live in Kentucky, US and hide on flowers to catch there prey.


Do Crab live in the desert?

There are crab Spiders (see first wikipedia article in related links) and there are spider crabs (see second wiki article for the most commonly referred to spider crab, the huge Japanese kind). Crab spiders are a family (as in Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species), and thus a rather general type of spiders, that are very wide spread throughout the world. There a genus of spider sometimes called a crab spider that is very poisonous, and they live in the deserts of Africa (see third wiki article).


What type of spider look like a crab?

Any species of sluggish marine crab in the widely distributed family Majidae (or Maiidae). Spider crabs have a beak-shaped head; thick, rounded body; and long, spindly legs. They use a mucuslike mouth secretion to fasten algae, sponges, and other organisms to the hairs, spines, and knobby projections covering the body. Most species are scavengers, especially of carrion. Their size varies greatly. The body of the European long-beaked spider crab (Macropodia rostrata) is less than 0.5 in. (1 cm) in diameter, whereas the Japanese giant crab (Macrocheira kaempferi), whose outstretched claws can measure 13 ft (4 m) from tip to tip, is perhaps the largest known arthropod.http://www.answers.com/spider%20crab


What kind of spider is black with a white line going straight down the back?

could be a male crab spider, or a writing spider.