This crab hates barnacles

Posted by Nature View (Park City, Utah, United States) on 9 July 2007 in Animal & Insect and Portfolio.

Ok, this will be my last crab photograph for a while. I like crabs, but I have kind of burned out on shore crab postings over the past week.

This poor crab (Hemigrapsus) was covered with so many barnacles that he was having a hard time even bending his claws. A molt would do him a whole lot of good.