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Marsh crabs build creeks!

  • Post author:Marc Hensel
  • Post published:November 15, 2016
  • Post category:#marshlife/Herbivory/Sesarma
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Some very cool new research has come out of the Pennings Lab at the University of Houston last month. Huy Vu et al reports, in Ecology, that purple marsh crabs…

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Purple Marsh Crab Grazing…during the day…at high tide!

  • Post author:Marc Hensel
  • Post published:May 28, 2015
  • Post category:#marshlife/Herbivory/High Tide/Science/Sesarma
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Well I have never seen this before... This video features the purple marsh crab, Sesarma reticulatum. This crab is a well known marsh herbivore (actually omnivore!) that feeds on aboveground…

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Workin on my night marsh

  • Post author:Marc Hensel
  • Post published:May 20, 2015
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      Look who I found eating some grass out at Folgers Marsh outside UMass Boston's Field Station on Nantucket!  Thats right, your friendly neighborhood purple marsh crab.  Some…

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