Welcome Horseshoe Crabs

Everything you ever wanted to know

Horseshoe crab swimming

How the horseshoe crab sees

From Discovery Education

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7fwwelWpdc

Why did the ancestors of Horseshoe crabs start laying their eggs on the beach 500 million years ago?

http://youtu.be/Daz8nkh-pWM

Blue Blood for medical use

Limulus Amoebocyte Lysate (LAL)

Horseshoe crabs are used for bait!

Red Knots

http://featherflower.blogspot.com/2008/05/redetermined-migration-part-ii.html

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Red_knot_Delaware.jpg/640px-Red_knot_Delaware.jpg

Our horseshoe crabs will be released in May!

Thank you to the Maryland Department of Natural Resources for providing the slides with the blue background.