My big
herbivory experiment is done, and the summer is coming to a close - classes start in less than two weeks! There's still plenty that needs to get done - yesterday we did a trip down to Connecticut and Rhode Island to collect some algae.
Similar to what I was doing at the start of the summer, we are trying to quantify the species composition of algal communities in different locations, where the invader is present.
So I am back to sorting algae out of bags, which is long and somewhat mind-numbing, but there are many happy distractions in the form of little critters hiding out in the algae.
Today is arthropod day...
A little spider crab sitting on the tip of my finger.
Itty bitty little crab - it looks like an Asian Shore Crab, which is also invasive to this region. For scale: it is sitting on a microscope slide.
A very pretty pycnogonid (sea spider) on the same microscope slide.
A little spider crab sitting on the tip of my finger.
Itty bitty little crab - it looks like an Asian Shore Crab, which is also invasive to this region. For scale: it is sitting on a microscope slide.
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