How a thumb-sized climate migrant with a giant crab claw is disrupting the Great Marsh ecosystem north of the Cape

It’s interesting that Spartina grass adapts within decades.
Thanks!

Looks like one undersized claw to me.

Ecosystems are complicated, man.

Blue shell crabs are a delicacy for the everyday person. Delicious, ritualistic in eating them and a fantastic way to have a celebratory feast. Buy a bushel for many a guests. Corn, beer, iced tea and crabs.

The too blue to be true - but is - is another aspect of what makes blue shell crabs so interesting.

But they belong in the Chesapeake Bay and south of the Bay. They are emphatically NOT cold water crustaceans. Lobsters belonging the cold waters; blue shell crabs belonging the warm waters.

That blue shell crabs survive in New England waters is a frightfully loud signal that New England waters are undergoing drastic change.

Maybe we should have climate denier season now that climate change is mucking up every season?

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