soldier crab


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soldier crab

n
(Animals) a small blue Australian estuarine crab of the Mictyris genus usually found in large numbers
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Biting green ants were put into one arm, soldier crabs in the other arm, while around her right foot they poured cockroaches and around her left it was yabbies and mud crabs.
At Urunga, on the mid-north coast of New South Wales, a favourite occupation for young and old is to observe the movement and activities of soldier crabs Mictyris sp.
During March 2017, fairly late in the afternoon, many fully grown soldier crabs were observed on the sand flats, and at the same time and a little further out from the shore at the edge of the mangroves, smaller specimens, presumably of the same species, were bunched in substantial numbers at the water's edge.
On I'm a Celebrity...Rosemary Shrager spent156 minutes in a 'coffin' with soldier crabs
"That at least would be a start for the Inspector Plods of cricket's Anti-Corruption Unit who have been hunting for the big fish of international match-fixing for 12 years and so far caught a couple of soldier crabs," he added.
Beaufort County, SC Heading east toward the coast, the air thickens; the fecund earth yields old growth, bearded oaks; on the flat highway the world of encroaching green closes in on you--then the relay of bridges over the shallow brackish waters dotted with colonies of soldier crabs boring in and out of mud and seagrass.
Later we strolled across the beach and were amazed by the sight of vast armies of soldier crabs marching sideways across the sand.
in the earnest scurry of soldier crabs, the whoop of rod line
Fiddler crab colonies give colourful sparks on the greyish mud and herds of soldier crabs roam the flats on their foraging trails, littering the sediment with pellets from their feeding activity (Fig.
The predator-prey relationship I studied between soldier crabs and meiofauna was a case of repressive interaction.
Soldier crabs walk forwards, not sideways, like other crabs.