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(9,353 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Something I learned recently is that Pill Bugs aka Roly-Poly's ... are actually not insects ... they're land-dwelling crustaceans ...
Surprised I never knew that as trivia like that is kinda my thing ...
LeftInTX
(25,903 posts)dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)Fla Dem
(23,946 posts)Nature is fing amazing!
femmedem
(8,218 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,510 posts)they could charge the crabs a toll........
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Came out of work to find the parking lot completely covered with a moving blanket of black crawdads.
this was in Fla. sometime mid summer, I think.
I felt so bad having to step on them to get to the car, but I found out if I stood still, they just kinda piled up on my feet, then I had to drive out of the parking lot...scrunch squish scrunch.
That haunted me for days.
912gdm
(959 posts)The video states it, but sometimes I just like to check for myself. And along one of the major migration routes they made a 'crab bridge' over a busy road
here's info about them if curious.. https://www.christmas.net.au/experiences/red-crab-migration/
catbyte
(34,578 posts)eppur_se_muova
(36,319 posts)catbyte
(34,578 posts)eppur_se_muova
(36,319 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,260 posts)It's an Australian terrtory in the Indian Ocean, near Java.
eppur_se_muova
(36,319 posts)yellowdogintexas
(22,299 posts)who wander in groups across the roads on the Southeast part of the island.
I do not know if this is seasonal, but we were there in August and encountered a herd of them - I coult not stop fast enough and ran over at least one.
We referred to them as 'suicidal land crabs'
Big gray creatures, leg span well over a foot
DFW
(54,583 posts)It was the Audubon bird sanctuary in Wellfleet, MA. We were led down to the water's edge to get a view of some snowy egrets (or whatever they were), and I noticed the shore was teeming with little black somethings. The Audubon woman said they were some kind of black flies, of which the Cape has too many. But they didn't move like flies, although they seemed to numerous to be anything other than flies. They literally covered the ground like a slow-moving carpet. So I looked closer. It was millions, maybe tens of millions, of tiny baby fiddler crabs, and we were being led on a path that must have crushed ten thousand of them. My wife and I left immediately after informing the Audubon people what they were doing (I was rather disgusted that they didn't seem to care, and amazed they had no clue what the crabs were--these were naturalists?).
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