4/24–4/30 Dock Totals: 1,403 anglers aboard 68 boats out of San Diego landings this past week caught 1 yellowfin tuna, 764 yellowtail, 52 calico bass, 58 sand bass, 2,944 rockfish, 13 lingcod ...

Those are mole crabs (Emerita talpoida), often called sand fleas, sand fiddlers, sand bugs or sand hoppers. Looking more like insects than crabs, ... Spring is mating season for the little crabs.

According to McInroe, you won’t find mole crabs living in dry sand. ... So next time you’re at the beach, keep an eye out for the little bubbling holes that mole crabs leave in the wet sand.

Where Little Fiddler Crabs Like to Hide. Sarah Zielinski. November 10, 2010. Get our newsletter! ... But juveniles don't—or can't—seek shelter in the sand. They can hide beneath vegetation, ...

In the mesmerizing time-lapse above, we are treated to a fascinating documentation of the artsy ways of sand bubbler crabs. These critters include 23 distinct species spread across the genera ...

Hunting, cooking and eating sand crabs, aka mole crabs or sand fleas Having long wondered if the sand crabs his kids dig up at the ocean's edge are edible, NJ Advance Media commentator Brian ...

Although some shorebirds prefer habitats further from the water, most are found at the water’s edge. It may seem strange for ...

It turns out that mole crabs actually dig backward, using their pointy rumps to push past the sand grains. They vigorously beat the wet sand with their tails, whipping it into a semi-liquid state.

Pacific mole crabs - also called sand crabs. You've probably seen the little holes they make. They spend their lives just under the surface of the sand, waves crashing overhead.

Like sand bubbler crabs, which make little, satisfyingly symmetrical dome homes that wouldn’t be out of place in a Mars colony. Laughing Squid picked up on a recent video of a sand bubbler crab ...

But little is known about what, exactly, ... Using GoPro cameras and geophones, which measured the percussive vibrations that the crabs produced in the sand, ...