Florida Fish and Wildlife need your help with horseshoe crabs

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Your help is wanted by Florida Fish and Wildlife. This is the peak period when horseshoe crabs come ashore to mate.

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Marcia Neil

United States

Unless I'm mistaken, the brown armorlike, peaked carapaces shed along shorelines change color in the sun -- resembling the reddish-white coloration patterns of certain fish. [in Stuart, FL]

Marcia Neil

United States

Yes!-- a genuine horseshoe crab exoskeleton, three inches long total size, west spoil island beneath the Lyons Bridge, Indian River Lagoon in Martin County, FL. Specimen may be a plant or discard, as other true crab remains have been in that area, within mangrove cluster proximity.

Marcia Neil

United States

A few days ago, horseshoe crab exoskeleton lacking everything but horned shed carapace, about four inches wide x four inches long -- resembling a mask and is possibly a plant -- observed on west spoil island beneath Lyons Bridge near Sewall's Point, FL. Half stone crab with claw rolling in shoreline water nearby, also a possible plant from catch elsewhere or supermarket.

Marcia Neil

United States

(continued from #3) This past Friday on east island beneath Lyons Bridge near Hutchinson Island: what appears to be the same horeshoe-crab mask-like casting observed on shoreline northside following days of prevailing westward winds (previous sighting also northside on west island shoreline). The total absence of all other body-part castings does suggest a plant, because the casting is not damaged.

Marcia Neil

United States

This date an almost-complete horseshoe-crab exoskeleton can be observed among shells and rubble on the northside shore of the west island beneath the Lyons Bridge, lacking only pointed tail. A mini-lobster exoskeleton also lies not far away, as do the remains of a +/- three-foot-long fish missing its midsection.

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