Tag: horseshoe crab

January 2024 Class List

by Morgan

December 27, 2023

Join us at the UF/IFAS Brevard Extension office for some fun learning experiences! Make sure to follow us on Eventbrite to be notified by email whenever we post a new class: https://brevardextension.eventbrite.com ServSafe Manager's Class and ... READ MORE

Category: Events
Tags: Bycatch Reduction Devices, Canning, Cooking Classes, Fitness, Fitness Challenge, Florida Friendly Fishing, Food Safety, Horseshoe Crab, Master Food And Nutrition Volunteer, Master Gardener, Nutrition, Nutrition Class, Poultry, Pressure Canning, Soil Health, Soil Improvement, Urban Farming, Volunteer Program, Volunteering, Water Bath Canning, Wellness

The Pensacola Bay Horseshoe Crab Hunt 2022

by Rick O'Connor

August 25, 2022

This is an amazing animal – the horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus). A relic of an age before the dinosaurs, they have been plowing the sediments of our marine and estuarine waters for over 400 million years. They are thick ... READ MORE

Category: Coasts & Marine, Natural Resources
Tags: Florida Sea Grant, Horseshoe Crab

Finding Rare Animals

by Rick O'Connor

July 1, 2022

One of the programs I focus on as a Sea Grant Extension Agent in Escambia County is restoring the health of our estuary. One of the projects in that program is increasing the encounters with estuarine animals that were once common. Currently ... READ MORE

Category: Coasts & Marine, Natural Resources
Tags: Florida Sea Grant, Horseshoe Crab, Scallop Survey, Scallops, Terrapins

Living fossils saving lives

by Barbara L. Edmonds

February 4, 2021

The COVID-19 vaccine has slowly rolled out to states across the country. Behind the scenes an ancient marine creature with ten eyes, twelve legs and magical, milky blue blood is being utilized worldwide for testing vaccines and sterility of ... READ MORE

Category: Clubs & Volunteers, Coasts & Marine, Community Volunteers, Conservation, Natural Resources, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research, Water, Wildlife
Tags: Conservation, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Fishery, Horseshoe Crab, Human Health, Shorebird, Vaccine, Wildlife

With five sets of legs, these horseshoe aren’t for tossing.

by Barbara L. Edmonds

April 30, 2018

Extension connects the general public with University of Florida scientist and specialist by providing research based education. One such research project is University of Florida’s horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) watch. The goal is to ... READ MORE

Category: Coasts & Marine
Tags: Citizen Scientists, Coastal Habitat, Dixie County, Florida, Horseshoe Crab, Levy County Extension, Saltwater

Why you owe a “thank you” to the horseshoe crab – its blood could save your life

by Liliana Kolluri

May 18, 2017

If you've ever gotten a vaccine, or perhaps you or someone you know has taken an insulin shot or has a pacemaker implanted, you may have to thank the horseshoe crab for saving your life. Horseshoe crab blood contains a compound called Limulus ... READ MORE

Category: Coasts & Marine, Conservation, Natural Resources, Wildlife
Tags: Citizen Science, Horseshoe Crab, LKolluri

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