Egg-eating worms living on Chesapeake Bay blue crabs may hold the key to smarter fishery management. Once thought to be a threat, these parasites actually serve as natural biomarkers that reveal when ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's spawning season. That means you might start to spot blue land crabs around this time of year as the female crabs venture out ...

Parasitic, egg-eating worms might sound like the stuff of nightmares, but they're simply a fact of life for blue crabs in the Chesapeake Bay. Interestingly, a new study published in the journal PLOS ...

A new study from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science showed that a species of parasitic worm has done more than co-evolve with the crab to withstand salty and freshwaters. It’s also proving to be ...

An egg-bearing blue crab found near Oyster, VA. Scientists believe the presence of an egg-eating parasitic worm may aid in the management of the fishery by revealing the number of times a crab has ...

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 ...