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When a strong, unpleasant tactile stimulus is presented, such as a burst of water or the prod of a probe, a stereotyped behavior occurs in which the muscular tail and wide tail fan region of the telson are used like a paddle to propel the crustacean away from harm using powerful abdominal flexions. The entire process occurs in a fraction of a ...
Drop the lobsters into the pot and close the lid. Bring it up to a full boil and cook for 18 minutes. When you open the lid, you will have bright red lobsters and New England’s iconic meal.
Spiny lobsters do not have the gonopods (first pleopods modified for reproduction) that occur in clawed lobsters and crabs, and females do not have a deep pocket on the sternum in which to store sperm. [11] Instead, a spermatophore is transferred directly from one of the male's gonopores to the sternum of the female. The male gonopore is ...
The inefficiency of the trapping system has inadvertently prevented the lobster population from being overfished. Lobsters can easily escape the trap, and will defend the trap against other lobsters because it is a source of food. An estimated 10% of lobsters that encounter a trap enter, and of those that enter 6% will be caught. [66]
Baby lobsters can molt several times a month at the beginning of their lives as they grow so fast. With each molt they can get as much as one-tenth longer and fifty percent heavier. Hatchery ...
Caught lobsters are graded as new-shell, hard-shell, or old-shell. Because lobsters that have recently shed their shells are the most delicate, an inverse relationship exists between the price of American lobster and its flavor. New-shell lobsters have paper-thin shells and a worse meat-to-shell ratio, but the meat is very sweet.
Despite its shiny red exoskeleton and reputation as a bug of the sea, the lobster — though far from the world’s strangest delicacy — has long reigned as an improbable luxury staple.
These lines may be more than 50 lobsters long. Spiny lobsters navigate using the smell and taste of natural substances in the water that change in different parts of the ocean. It was recently discovered that spiny lobsters can also navigate by detecting the Earth's magnetic field. [18] They keep together by contact, using their long antennae. [19]