Quotes About Crustaceans

A zoologist at Humboldt State, Michael A. Camann, climbed in the Atlas Grove and took samples of the fern mats and discovered that they are also sprinkled with tiny aquatic creatures, crustaceans of an unnamed species of copepod. Copepods are oval-shaped, shrimp-like creatures, barely visible to the naked eye, that are sometimes called the insects of the ocean.

I like seafood like prawns and fish - I can live on prawns!

Hey, we all have our fear. Mine is bugs and lobsters!

Christine Blacklaw paled. She knew he was right. Loch Merse and its surrounding area was a terrible death trap, human beings the bait, the crustaceans lurked nearby, waiting to move in for one of the most terrible slaughters in the history of Mankind.

gingerly—the word "gingerly" here means "avoiding territorial crabs"—

I'm horrified of lobsters. And shrimp and lobsters are the cockroaches of the ocean.

The barge anchors were unrecognisable as such, more like crustaceans, specimens of some giant type long since discarded by Nature, but still clinging to their old habitat, sunk in the deep pits they had made in the foreshore. But under the ground they were half rusted away. Dreadnought's anchor had come up easily enough when the salvage tug came to dispose of her. The mud which held so tenaciously could also give way in a moment, if conditions altered.

Hey, we all have our fear. Mine is bugs and lobsters!

The birds that struggled to successfully locate crustaceans searched for snails and clams, with varying luck. However, a new option presented itself. An aroma pierced their nostrils, drawing their attention to a speck of light circling the island. The object was a quarter mile off, but judging by the motoring sounds, it was one of those large objects that carried clothed biped creatures across the water.