horseshoe crab

  1. Atlantic horseshoe crab

    Atlantic horseshoe crab

    Pretty sure it's an Atlantic horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus)
  2. birdsandbats

    Do we really want a COVID-19 vaccine if it's made of horseshoe crab blood?

    In the US, vaccines are composed largely of Horseshoe Crab blood. These crabs are captured from the wild and have a third of their blood drained. They are released after this, but most don't survive and the ones that do produce less eggs. Will the populations of Horseshoe Crabs and the birds...
  3. Fargusno

    Crustaceans and Horseshoe Crabs in Indonesian Aquaria

    Jakarta Aquarium: Coconut crab (Birgus latro) Purple land hermit crab (Coenobita purpureus) Indo-Pacific hermit crab (Coenobita brevimanus) White-spotted hermit crab (Dardanus megistos) Bullseye reef lobster (Enoplometopus holthuisi) Unknown shore crab (Hemigrapsus sp) Skunk cleaner shrimp...
  4. Horseshoe Crab

    Horseshoe Crab

  5. birdsandbats

    rufa Red Knots decline

    The American Red Knot (subspecies rufa), declined 25% this season due to shortages in Horseshoe Crab eggs: Red Knots plummet by 25% in a year in Tierra del Fuego
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