Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this July 18, 2011 photo, a giant blue land crab moves through the grass, at Montgomery Botanical Center, in Coral Gables, Fla.

MOREHEAD CITY, N.C. (WNCT) — The N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries is asking people to please be on the lookout for blue land crabs, Cardisoma guanhumi, and to report sightings. Blue land crabs are a ...

Blue land crabs are edible and are a food source in the Bahamas and the Caribbean. In Florida, harvesting blue land crabs is prohibited from July 1 through Oct. 31. Blue land crabs can be caught by ...

Imagine a ghost crab combined with a fiddler crab. Now imagine that hybrid on steroids, like the performance-enhancing drugs used by professional baseball players in the 1990s. That image effectively ...

That means you might start to spot blue land crabs around this time of year as the female crabs venture out to sea to release their eggs, a time period called spawning season that lasts from June to ...

There's nothing like sharing the love, but officials as far north as North Carolina aren't smiling over the latest invasive species making its way up the East Coast from Florida: blue land crabs.