Horseshoe Crab Original Artwork
50% of all sales go the Center for Biological Diversity
Egg Tempera & gold leaf on wood 9” x 7’’ x 1’’
Horseshoe crabs are arthropods, not actually crabs, which are more closely related to spiders. They are an ancient animal, more than half a billion years old. And yet, their numbers today are in steep decline due to human activity:
The biomedical industry bleeds horseshoe crabs to manufacture a detector for bacterial contamination. A large percentage of them die after bleeding or cease to be able to reproduce. Other threats are over-harvesting for bait, fishing "bycatch," habitat loss and water pollution.
5,000,000 of them are harvested per year.
Source: IUCN Redlist
50% of all sales go the Center for Biological Diversity
Egg Tempera & gold leaf on wood 9” x 7’’ x 1’’
Horseshoe crabs are arthropods, not actually crabs, which are more closely related to spiders. They are an ancient animal, more than half a billion years old. And yet, their numbers today are in steep decline due to human activity:
The biomedical industry bleeds horseshoe crabs to manufacture a detector for bacterial contamination. A large percentage of them die after bleeding or cease to be able to reproduce. Other threats are over-harvesting for bait, fishing "bycatch," habitat loss and water pollution.
5,000,000 of them are harvested per year.
Source: IUCN Redlist
50% of all sales go the Center for Biological Diversity
Egg Tempera & gold leaf on wood 9” x 7’’ x 1’’
Horseshoe crabs are arthropods, not actually crabs, which are more closely related to spiders. They are an ancient animal, more than half a billion years old. And yet, their numbers today are in steep decline due to human activity:
The biomedical industry bleeds horseshoe crabs to manufacture a detector for bacterial contamination. A large percentage of them die after bleeding or cease to be able to reproduce. Other threats are over-harvesting for bait, fishing "bycatch," habitat loss and water pollution.
5,000,000 of them are harvested per year.
Source: IUCN Redlist