cross-posted from: https://lemmy.crimedad.work/post/111744
cross-posted from: https://pixelfed.crimedad.work/p/crimedad/723334816014531775
I suppose I like Walz, too, but how is it going to feel listening to him trying to justify sending more weapons to Israel?
Anyway, here are a pair of sand fleas my kid and her cousins found at the beach.
#macro #beach #FireIsland #crustacean #WeWantWalz #FreePalestine
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We always called those “sand crabs” and these sand fleas
Those are also called “sand flies,” and they actually bite and suck blood and stuff. The things linked really are little crabs - we used to fish with them.
Hated those in Virginia. We’d call them horse flies, but we just called any fly that bites a horse fly.
Isn’t that a robber fly?
You know, on the page I found it, it says it’s a sand fly, but I think you’re right. Sand flys are really small, and I’m not sure I’ve seen a magnified version of them. Looking for other images, I think this is really one and the other is mislabeled:
Isn’t that a Little Fly?
Looks kind of like what I used to call horse flies.
Those are definitely sand crabs, genus Emerita
Bugs is bugs.
We used to dig for them at the beach and put them all in one bucket with sand and water and watch them swim and dig and try to hide
Same!
This is exactly what my kid and nieces were doing lol.
nope
Totally harmless, if a bit ugly. Not sure why we called them sand crabs when I was a kid and would catch them in a bucket. All they do is try to burrow and hide under wet sand, so when you hold them they try to crawl into your hand. It tickles a little.
so when you hold them they try to crawl into your hand
Nope
They jump on your legs when you try and sleep on the beach. 0/10
What? No way, these things can’t jump! There might be actual sand fleas or other bugs that do that, but not what this guy has in the picture
They’ll stay still for a while in your hand, but then start trying to scurry causing them to clumsily “jump” away.
We always called them sand fleas within our family. Never really knew what their real name was and hadn’t realized others called them sand fleas as well. We often used them as bait for fishing.
I remember digging those up on vacation in Naples Florida in the summers. We used to call them sand fleas too, although I now think that’s not the correct term
You can eat them. Boil them like shrimp.
Source: Jon C., a friend from work who used to dig them up and sell them.
In some cultures, sand crabs are eaten as a popular snack, such as in Thailand. They are often prepared via shallow frying in a pan or deep frying in batter. The taste is often described as falling somewhere between that of shrimp and crab. Eating sand crabs presents a risk of paralytic shellfish poisoning and/or infection with Profilicollis parasites.
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At least they’re not eaten as an unpopular snack
Classic Jon lol
True
All I can here now is the song “Stress” by Jim’s Big Ego.
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