View Full Version : That's not a crab THIS is a crab
The Bigfella
03-02-2007, 05:02 AM
OK - so I had to scan a photo I took a couple of years back, when we had Grantala slipped. But these are one of the two crab species we get here. The one on the right is a Mud Crab. I don't know what that is holding it - it sure as hell isn't me.
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid225/p43d5efa036e1c74dc4561bf7a8c6cf09/ea7a4372.jpg
ByronB
03-02-2007, 05:12 AM
Nah, this is a crab.
http://www.ryanphotographic.com/images/JPEGS/Pseudocarinus%20gigas%20Giant%20Tasmanian%20crab%2 02.jpg
The Bigfella
03-02-2007, 05:25 AM
Yep - that's a crab
http://www.eastbaycrab.com/taz.jpg
Concordia...41
03-02-2007, 05:27 AM
:eek: :eek: :eek: Youch!
My money's on the second one ;)
P.I. Stazzer-Newt
03-02-2007, 05:33 AM
http://www.hedge.net/fields/pictures/web_guy_with_a_giant_crab.jpg
Story (http://www.hedge.net/fields/giantcrab.html)
Spokaloo
03-03-2007, 01:10 AM
That thing looks like a red rock crab like we get here in the PNW on 'roids.
And here I thought this 2.5lb dungeness was a pig
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b65/fighterama2/Netarts050.jpg
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Nanoose
03-03-2007, 08:56 AM
Why is bigger always better? :)
Lucky Luke
03-03-2007, 10:08 AM
Donn wins hands up :D:D:D
Katherine
03-03-2007, 10:11 AM
Donn has crabs?
Nanoose
03-03-2007, 10:11 AM
THAT'S why he's been cranky lately! :)
Just how much meat is in the carapace of those things? They seem like they can't possibly have much meat because all they have is legs and then not with much in the way of a claw. If they're anything like a lobster there isn't much to eat in any of them.
No tail, no real claws, what's the deal?
Just how much meat is in the carapace of those things? They seem like they can't possibly have much meat because all they have is legs and then not with much in the way of a claw. If they're anything like a lobster there isn't much to eat in any of them.
No tail, no real claws, what's the deal?
you have to take real small bites...
Lucky Luke
03-03-2007, 09:31 PM
Donn has crabs?
OH! Kate!!!:D:D:D
hnsbrc
03-04-2007, 05:54 AM
How about this one:
http://pathmicro.med.sc.edu/parasitology/louse-dk5.jpg
Phthirus Pubis (a.k.a. crab, bloomer bunny, crotch pheasant,etc) If you want one of these they are usually acquired when two ships pass close in the night: they jump from one to the other hoping to find easy pickings in the bilge area.
The Bigfella
03-04-2007, 05:55 PM
Just how much meat is in the carapace of those things?
Plenty with a Mud Crab. That guy in the first photo fed two of us. I always get among the meat in the carapace - although some of it can get a bit pithy.
.... As for Phthirus Pubis. I do believe a deceased gentleman in Sydney some years back holds the world record for these little nasties. He had something like 3,300 of them (including some other species - eg head lice) - all dutifuly counted by a morgue attendant.
It was a common sight in Papua New Guinea when I was up there 15 years ago - two people sitting in the street going through each other's hair, crushing lice with their fingernails.
Ian
Nanoose
03-04-2007, 06:05 PM
Plenty with a Mud Crab. That guy in the first photo fed two of us. I always get among the meat in the carapace - although some of it can get a bit pithy.
.... As for Phthirus Pubis. I do believe a deceased gentleman in Sydney some years back holds the world record for these little nasties. He had something like 3,300 of them (including some other species - eg head lice) - all dutifuly counted by a morgue attendant.
It was a common sight in Papua New Guinea when I was up there 15 years ago - two people sitting in the street going through each other's hair, crushing lice with their fingernails.
Ian
Eeewwwwwwwwwww!! :( GROSS!! :( :(
Certain members of the Apes do that for each other, but rather than waste the protein, they eat the pickings.
I wonder if Frontline works for people...
Robbie
03-04-2007, 06:58 PM
Just how much meat is in the carapace of those things? They seem like they can't possibly have much meat because all they have is legs and then not with much in the way of a claw. If they're anything like a lobster there isn't much to eat in any of them.
No tail, no real claws, what's the deal?
Why don't one of you Aussies post a photo of a MORETON BAY BUG...they have a nice tail and carapace etc....I love them and always make sure I get a feed of bugs when in Aussie.
Regards Robbie
carioca1232001
03-04-2007, 07:00 PM
If Frontline works or not I do not know, but in warm and hot climates, even children from high income homes can be attacked by head-lice, requiring that but one child in the class be so infested.
So besides using the relevant lice-killing drug, whatever lice have survived need to be picked out and obliterated.
The Bigfella
03-04-2007, 08:21 PM
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/61/Thenus_orientalis.jpg/230px-Thenus_orientalis.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moreton_Bay_bug
They are also called Balmain Bugs too.
PeterSibley
03-05-2007, 05:37 AM
If Frontline works or not I do not know, but in warm and hot climates, even children from high income homes can be attacked by head-lice, requiring that but one child in the class be so infested.
So besides using the relevant lice-killing drug, whatever lice have survived need to be picked out and obliterated.
The best solution is to thickly smother the offending head in the cheapest conditioner that can be found .Leave 20 minutes , then wash out ....suffocated head lice = happy parents .Redo as the eggs hatch , say every week?
Andrew Craig-Bennett
03-05-2007, 06:47 AM
The entire population of Shanghai will assert that this is the only crab worth considering:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/EriocheirSinensis1.jpg/260px-
The Chinese mitten crab, aka Shanghai hairy crab
Now, here's a funny thing. The little blighters have been fished out in their native haunts, and have had to be re-stocked by interbreeding with a Japanese sub-species, but they have gotten themselves, via ships' ballast water, to Europe and North America, where they are considered a pest, as they burrow into embankments.
There is a serious business opportunity here, folks...send them ALL back!
The Marine Corps teaches a couple of good ways to get rid of Phthirus pubis.
For minor infestations, go to the movies and buy buttered popcorn. When you get to your seat, spill the popcorn around the immediate area. When the crabs come out to eat the popcorn, change seats.
For more serious infestations, shave off half of your pubic hair, and set the other half alight. When the crabs run out to escape the fire, stab them with an icepick.
ccmanuals
03-05-2007, 10:07 AM
For more serious infestations, shave off half of your pubic hair, and set the other half alight. When the crabs run out to escape the fire, stab them with an icepick.
Or a variation on this, when they run to escape the fire, pummel them with a ball-peen hammer.
The Bigfella
03-05-2007, 04:04 PM
A guy who used to work for me - long dead now - was in the Air Force during the war. He told a tale of "a friend" who had a dose of the crabs and sprayed the offending area heavily with Mortein. It worked apparently, but all his skin in the area peeled off too. Not recommended.
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