Episode 3-European Green Crab- Invasive Species Video Blog is ready for viewing!

Submitted by rchawley on Fri, 2012-07-13 14:23

Hello and how are you from Southport Island!

I hope everyone had a wonderful America week last week! This week the video blog focuses on the European green crab, an aggressive and hungry crustacean that is impacting the coast of Maine. I apologize in advance for the savage nature of this week's video. The innocent citizens featured are actually quite sweet children! Anyway, I hope you learn a lot and perhaps if you are at the beach this week you can find some of these unwelcome critters yourself! Remember, 5 spines is not so fine.

Hope the video doesn't leave you feeling too crabby!

Wild and free,
The Carrot

Project Information
City or Town: 
Southport Island
Species: 
Scientific name:
Carcinus maenas
Common name:
Green crab
Habitat: 
Coastal - Rocky intertidal
Resources I used to create this project: 
Vital Signs Species, Public Domain and Royalty free music, flickr.com photos by smilla4 and lizkdc, as well as "How Will I Know" by Whitney Houston
How should others reference your work?: 
Ruthie Hawley, European Green Crab, Vital Signs Program, 07/13/12

Comments

Submitted by christinev on Fri, 2012-07-13 15:23.

Another crabby invader

Nice work!!

I was curious if while you were hunting green crabs you saw any Asian shore crabs. Check out the Field Mission video here: http://vitalsignsme.org/crab-ladys-asian-shore-crab-mission-video