#crab and lobster

[purefilly-connection]

The Seafood Bisque That Connects Me to Family

What’s your favorite recipe? When I think about my favorite recipe, my mind immediately goes to the seafood bisque—a luscious blend of crab and lobster swimming in a creamy base that never fails to warm my soul. But it’s more than just the taste that makes this dish so special; it’s the history, the memories, and the connection to family that each spoonful carries. This recipe wasn’t discovered…

[samimarkart]

Blackwater Dive

2024, hand bleached and dyed denim, cotton batting and thread

inspired by blackwater photography of plankton! this was my first time layering bleach painting. All the silhouettes were painted with bleaching gel, loosely tie dyed, and then bleached again to make the highlights. I quilted the piece using my free motion foot to outline each individual animal and tacked down the rest of the quilt with small satin stitches that remind me of marine snow. I dyed bias tape to match. super happy with this one and excited to show it in a gallery setting soon!

[foodcravings]

(via Instagram)

[ketrinadrawsalot]

Decapocember Day 14: Know your Decapods!

Available as a print, just in time for holiday gift-giving!

[bea-trician]

Sketched a design for the Promised Bride (I may have become obsessed with her).

[artifacts-and-arthropods]

Pink Fairy Crab: also known as a "pink hairy squat lobster," this species of crab measures just 1.5cm (about half an inch) long, and it has a uniquely colorful, fuzzy-looking appearance

The scientific name of this species is Lauriea siagiani, but it's commonly known as the pink hairy squat lobster or the pink fairy crab. Like all so-called "squat lobsters," it is actually a type of crab (and a particularly flamboyant one, at that).

Pink fairy crabs have a strikingly colorful appearance, with pink, purple, or reddish-orange markings that look almost fluorescent; they also have dark purple "freckles" and bright orange eyes. The crabs themselves are tiny, measuring no more than 1.5cm (about half an inch) long, and their fuzzy little bodies are covered in long, hair-like structures known as setae.

These crabs can be found in the coral reefs around Indonesia, Japan, and the Philippines, where they generally settle into the ridges of giant barrel sponges and feed on various bits of detritus that are collected in their own "fur."

Sources & More Info:

Crustacean Research: Lauriea siagiani, a New Galatheid from Bali, Indonesia (PDF)

Biogeography: Lauriea siagiani from Hachijo-Jima Island, Japan (PDF)

Australian Geographic: This Bewhiskered "Fairy Crab" is the Tiniest Teddy Bear of the Ocean

Macronesia.net: Hairy Squat Lobster

Insects and Other Invertebrates: Lauriea siagiani

Reef Life: Commensalism

Coral Reef Animals of the Indo-Pacific: Lauriea siagiani

[edoelaphos]

Sea puppies 🦈🦐

[sarahmackattack]

It wasn’t a rock

It was a rock LOBSTAAAAAAHHH

[shiftythrifting]

Recent-ish finds from Admin BT: another mug edition! (Various thrift stores in the Boise, ID area)

Sensuous Woman should have come home with me. I'm going back tomorrow to see if it is still there.

[spouons]

carcinisation

[incognitopolls]

We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.

[ketrinadrawsalot]

December is for Decapods!

[tanabeth]

he was a lobster

she was a crab

can I make it anymore clawvious

He wanted her

she’d never shell

but seacretly she wanted him as well

but all of her friends

stuck up their mandible

they had a problem with his long tail.

he was a lobster boy

she said sea you later boy

He wasn’t good enough for her

[daily-deliciousness]

Overboard seafood linguine alfredo

[wildbeautifuldamned]

cody Foster & Co. Set Of 2 Seaside Crab Ornaments ebay La Via Store

[samimarkart]

lobster sticker has won for the month of June! sign up for my sticker tier here by June 30th to get these two lovely gentlemen sent to your mailbox 🦞🦞