Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The female releases a pheromone which causes the males to become less aggressive and to begin courtship, which involves a courtship dance with claws closed. Eventually, the male inserts spermatophores (sperm packets) into the female's seminal receptacle using his first pleopods; the female may store the sperm for up to 15 months. [41]
On this European lobster, the right claw (on the left side of the image) is the crusher and the left claw is the cutter.. Homarus gammarus is a large crustacean, with a body length up to 60 centimetres (24 in) and weighing up to 5–6 kilograms (11–13 lb), although the lobsters caught in lobster pots are usually 23–38 cm (9–15 in) long and weigh 0.7–2.2 kg (1.5–4.9 lb). [3]
The California spiny lobster is one of the largest spiny lobster species, [4] and grows up to 60 centimeters (24 in) long, but does not usually exceed 30 cm (12 in). [3] Males can weigh up to 7.4 kilograms (16 lb)., [4] with the record being a 16 lbs., 1 oz. male caught off Catalina island in 1968. The upper side of the animal is brownish red ...
The lobster life cycle begins with an adult, hard-shelled male, about five to seven years of age, mates with a newly-mounted female. After egg spawning, a female lobster will carry the eggs ...
The lobster is also half-male and half-female. Mr Knowles, who was already a very popular fisherman content creator with over 2 million followers on TikTok, took to social media to show off his ...
A male and female lobster positioned side by side. Erin McDowell/Business Insider. From explaining the telltale signs between male and female lobsters to showing how to remove barnacles from ...
Lobster is also used in soup, bisque, lobster rolls, cappon magro, and dishes such as lobster Newberg and lobster Thermidor. Cooks boil or steam live lobsters. When a lobster is cooked, its shell's color changes from brown to orange because the heat from cooking breaks down a protein called crustacyanin , which suppresses the orange hue of the ...
Spiny lobsters can be easily distinguished from true lobsters by their very long, thick, spiny antennae, by the lack of chelae (claws) on the first four pairs of walking legs, although the females of most species have a small claw on the fifth pair, [6] and by a particularly specialized larval phase called phyllosoma.