Ocypode quadrata | Range Tracking

Ghost Crab Tracks

2017/10/25 by terranovabay

Canaveral National Seashore | Titusville | Florida Looking like a vista from an alien world, this black and white negative view enhances the tracks in the beach sand of a Ghost Crab emanating out on different trips back and forth to its burrow, the hole the crab lives in, shown white in this negative view toward the center bottom of the image.

Categories: Nature • Tags: Canaveral National Seashore, Florida, Ghost Crab, Ocypode quadrata, Playalinda Beach, Titusville

Ghost Crab baby photos

2014/10/26 by terranovabay

Baby Ghost Crabs can often be seen during the day walking around on the beach, something the adults seldom do since they would be easy prey for birds and other predators. The baby Ghost Crabs, though, are tiny, about the size of a quarter, and blend in almost perfectly with the sand making them hard to see. A baby Ghost Crab forages on seaweed at night. Another view of a baby Ghost Crab camouflaged against the sand. A baby Ghost […]

Categories: Nature • Tags: beach, burrow, camouflage, eyestalks, Ghost Crab, Ocypode quadrata

International Sea Bean Symposium 2014

2014/10/21 by terranovabay

The 19th Annual International Sea Bean Symposium was held on 17 & 18 October 2014 in Cocoa Beach, Florida. While I am interested in sea beans, properly called drift seeds which are seeds from tropical plants from the jungles of South America that wash down to the sea and drift thousands of miles to eventually wash up on Northern Hemisphere beaches, I was delighted to find that Ocypode quadrata, the lowly Ghost Crab, was represented by the amazingly lifelike fossilized […]

Categories: Nature • Tags: Atlantic Ghost Crab, beach, beach combing, beachcombing, Brevard County, Cocoa Beach, Cocoa Beach Public Library, coquina, Florida, fossilized Ghost Crab, Ghost Crab, Holocene, International Sea Bean Symposium, Northern Hemisphere, Ocypode quadrata, Pleistocene, sea bean, South America

Ocypode Sunset

2014/10/14 by terranovabay

My fascination with Ocypode quadrata continues with various shots of Ghost Crabs on the beach after a gold-tinged sunset. Ghost Crabs can see 360-degrees around with their eyestalks, except for directly overhead, so this Ghost Crab may not have a good view of me looming overhead with the camera. On the other hand, this Crab can clearly see me taking a picture given the high position of its eyestalks allowing for a good view of what is going on behind […]

Categories: Nature • Tags: Atlantic Ghost Crab, beach, eyestalk, Ghost Crab, Ocypode quadrata, seaweed, sunset

Otherworldly Beach

2014/10/07 by terranovabay

The Blue Land Crab (Cardisoma guanhumiz) migration is heating up again as we reach the October full Moon meaning there are a lot of strange invaders on the beach with waving eyestalks and menacing pincers in Indian River County, Florida. Last night, the Land Crabs on the beach were waiting for the high tide to recede so they could enter the shallower water to release their eggs. Note the large, brown, egg mass hanging down from the center of this […]

Categories: Nature • Tags: Atlantic Ghost Crab, Atlantic Ocean, beach, Blue Land Crab, Cardisoma guanhumi, dog, egg mass, eyestalk, Florida, Full Moon, high tide, Highway A1A, Indian River County, larvae, low tide, migration, Ocypode quadrata, Pepper, pincers, Sam, spawn

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Tag: Ocypode quadrata

Ghost Crab Tracks

Ghost Crab baby photos

International Sea Bean Symposium 2014

Ocypode Sunset

Otherworldly Beach