Help us improve Spider Crab Watch!
Thank you to those of you who have logged in sightings on our iNaturalist Spider Crab Watch project. Your help is invaluable to gain a better understanding of spider crabs and their aggregations!
If you have recorded information on Spider Crab Watch, please consider completing this 10-15 minute survey to let us know about your experience and provide feedback so we can improve the project in future years: https://redcap.link/i011n74p.
This study led by Dr Elodie Camprasse has received Deakin University ethics approval (reference number SEBE-2022-32).
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Hi @drelodiecamprasse
Is there any interest for reports on where no spider crabs were observed?
We went for a recent trip night before the full moon in Bellarine hoping to observe some, but disappointingly my friend and I didn't come across any. Is that any value?
Hi @sav006, thanks for being in touch and for your interest in the program! Yeah, absence sightings are useful to help us improve modelling and find out what might influence spider crab aggregations; it has not quite caught on yet, but we're keen to get people to log more absence sightings if possible, so please feel free to add information from the Bellarine.
It's quite early (usually "spider crab" season) starts in May-June, but there has been activity in the Bay. We are not sure whether the crabs will return to the Bellarine, or Rye/Blairgowrie, or maybe somewhere completely different. :) Time will tell.
Kind regards,
Elodie
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