Posted on 09/20/2018 9:55:40 AM PDT by ETL
Angry green crabs from Nova Scotia, angrier than their already ornery green cousins in Maine, are migrating south. They have started to destroy the coastal ecosystem off the shores of Maine, as they eat more than their share of soft-shell clams and wreck native eel grass, according to research from Markus Frederich, a professor at the University of New England.
"What we're seeing is this insane level of aggressiveness," Frederich told the Associated Press.
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Louis Logan, a University of New England graduate student, had the unpleasant task of labeling the crabs captured from Nova Scotia waters for the research.
The crabs were in no mood for games.
At a distance of 5 feet, the pint-sized brutes assumed a fighting posture. Those that grabbed him were in no hurry to let go.
"Any time I went down to grab one they went to grab me instead," he wrote in an email.
One of them, in particular, would jump out of the water in its frenzy to attack.
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The quarrelsome newcomers currently comprise only about 2 to 3 percent of green crabs crawling on the ocean floor off Maine, but those numbers are certain to grow, Frederich said.
"It will be an entirely different ball game," he predicted. "It's just a question of when more of the crabs come and out-compete the Maine green crabs."
Eventually, the newcomers will move farther southward. "We can't do anything about it," he said. "The only thing that we can do is learn how to live with it."
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Oh, the crabs are in a pissy mood, and they’re INVADING our country? Well, we’ve got better than that, by a big margin. Let’s send in all of the angry Leftist women, along with the Antifa jackholes. Of course, we’ll be invading the crabs’ territory, so we’ll have to airdrop the lot into the ocean off the coast of Nova Scotia.
Bkmk
That movie immediately popped into my mind. Wonder if Roger Corman is on the scene.
Kill them, kill them all ....
:)
I was hoping you were still around.
(sung: *STILLLL ARRROOOUUUNNNND*)
He’s still alive!!!!..................92 years old!..............
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Corman
I am.
Work has been running me ragged lately though.
Dang.
Well better to be hard at work than to be leisurely unemployed.
After I went independent I learned about the worry about down time (but so far 2 years of continued engagements).
Better than doing quarterly performance reviews or being expected to write white papers no one will ever read, though. :)
Hang in here!
Blue Oyster Cult.
So massive invasion of aliens is a disaster here but a “blessing” there? Something doesn’t compute, what am I missing ?
Yes.
“Blue Oyster Cult. “
No, they had legs.
Jersey/Delaware/Maryland Blueclaw crabs do exactly the same. This looks like it's gonna be more AGW propaganda (I only read the first few lines).
Space Radiation Threat to Astronauts Explained (Infographic)
By Karl Tate, SPACE.com Infographics Artist
May 30, 2013
https://www.space.com/21353-space-radiation-mars-mission-threat.html
Sorry! Posted to wrong thread.
Meant for this new one I just posted...
Astronauts Going to Mars Will Absorb Crazy Amounts of Radiation. Now We Know How Much
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3689206/posts
But now we know where the angry mutant crabs came from!
Close enough for government work..
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