Re: Today in the Yard

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• Subject: Re: [CHAT] Today in the Yard
• From: &* H* <h*@earthlink.net>
• Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 20:18:54 -0500
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Yep Donna, they are. That's when the hermit crabs move in. They don't have a
shell so they have to find an empty on their size.

Andrea H
Beaufort, SC


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donna" <gossiper@sbcglobal.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2004 8:52 PM
Subject: RE: [CHAT] Today in the Yard


> HUH? They don't molt? So all those shells on beaches are ones that just
> died at whatever size?
>
> Hum...
>
> Donna
>
>
>  [CHAT] Today in the Yard
> >
> > Yeah, babies. hard to believe that something that small grows into
> > something that large without molting; the shell just grows along with
> > the snail. When you examine a baby shell under a lens, it is perfectly
> > shaped to become a big one--except it has the orange-brown markings on
> > its shell that look like lightning bolts [whence their common name].
> > They are easy to identify because they are sinistral [left-handed
> > spiral to their shell] and not many mollusks are.
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