Blue Crab Anatomy Blue Crab Identification Mature Male Mature Female Washington Monument Capitol Building Blue Crab Life Cycle Zooea larvae that spend several months drifting with the currents at sea ID: 911738
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Slide1
Counting Blue Crabs in the Chesapeake Bay
Slide2Blue Crab Anatomy
Slide3Blue Crab Identification
Mature Male
Mature Female
“Washington Monument”
“Capitol Building”
Slide4Blue Crab Life Cycle
Zooea
– larvae that spend several months drifting with the currents at sea
Megalopae
– another larval form that reenters the Bay and settles to the bottom in “nursery” habitats, like
seagrass
beds:
As the juvenile crabs grow larger, they repeatedly shed their exoskeleton, called “molting”:
Slide5Blue Crabs in the Bay
Slide6Videos & Activity