Interesting but I thought those were different animals? Cuz I’ve seen the flea ones that hop around and burrow but the ones we called beetles would only burrow
If we're talking the clawless little crabby things that dig into the beach at the drop off. You can release them and they scuttle their way back into the sand almost instantly.
It reminds me of how all the tiny, microscopic creatures in the ocean migrate up and down the water column each day, and how their tiny flaggellae somehow stir and refresh the waters of the ocean to a surprising depth
jawshLA | 6 hours ago
TIL: The things we called sand crabs all my life are actually called Sand Hoppers.
Fun-War6684 | 5 hours ago
We called em sand beetles
gartlandish | 4 hours ago
We call them Sand fleas in rhode island
Fun-War6684 | 4 hours ago
Interesting but I thought those were different animals? Cuz I’ve seen the flea ones that hop around and burrow but the ones we called beetles would only burrow
gartlandish | 4 hours ago
Ya I know what you’re talking about and they are called sand fleas. but we call these sand fleas too for some reason. At least my grandpa did
Fun-War6684 | 4 hours ago
Ohh gotcha. Now that I think about it we’d call the beetles fleas too and would annoy the hell outta my dad
Wayelder | 3 hours ago
I called them...'bait'.
If we're talking the clawless little crabby things that dig into the beach at the drop off. You can release them and they scuttle their way back into the sand almost instantly.
gartlandish | 2 hours ago
Ya definitely great bait
Electronic-Lie-4547 | an hour ago
And Florida - east coast terminology
chiefkeefinwalmart | 2 hours ago
There is no ‘actually called’ when it comes to common names. Call em whatever works for you
NefariousnessNo484 | 2 hours ago
They're sand crabs in socal.
WTFHELP | 4 hours ago
Can we eat them?
Perfect-Squash3773 | 3 hours ago
some people do.
WTFHELP | 2 hours ago
Sand hoppers and grits is on the menu.
NefariousnessNo484 | 2 hours ago
Leave them alone
Loose_Jackfruit_3104 | 2 hours ago
I for one am okay with the shrimp-like creatures moving the sand
Morbidly-Obese-Emu | 5 hours ago
I feel like 110 pounds in the context of the entire California coast is not that much.
RedditorSinceTomorro | 5 hours ago
Per meter
Bearded_Toast | 2 hours ago
Every day
SpoonwoodTangle | 5 hours ago
Well keep in mind that there might be a huge number of these critters. If each of them are doing this every week, it starts to add up.
Bearded_Toast | 2 hours ago
It’s per day
SpoonwoodTangle | an hour ago
It reminds me of how all the tiny, microscopic creatures in the ocean migrate up and down the water column each day, and how their tiny flaggellae somehow stir and refresh the waters of the ocean to a surprising depth
Zenfrogg62 | 44 minutes ago
Is it each of them though? The article wasn’t clear as to whether it was each creature or the total creatures in the patch of beach that was studied.
Evil-Dalek | 9 minutes ago
Each 1 meter stretch of coastline is having 110 pounds of sand moved per day by the culmination of all of the crabs.
So a 1km stretch of coastline is having 110,000 pounds of sand moved per day.
onethousandthwish | 3 hours ago
110 pounds PER METER 100 pounds PER METER 110 pounds PER METER
Potatoez | 2 hours ago
PER METER aka 3 cubic feet
Edit: 3 FEET! lol
lollygagging_reddit | an hour ago
Check again lol, you just converted a distance into a volume!
Silly you. But I got what you were getting at
renijreddit | 3 hours ago
🎶 just what makes that little ol” crab…