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🚨Our spidey senses say these aren’t spiders! 🚨
Delicate drifters with long limbs may look a bit like spiders, but these beautiful babies are actually lobster larvae-the offspring of slipper lobsters.
Slipper lobsters spend most of their lives crawling along the seafloor. But in their larval stage, these fragile friends float in the midwater zone where more planktonic food can be found.
When you’re an itsy bitsy lobster larvae, help from a floating jelly can come in handy! Holding onto a jelly, like the mauve stinger, helps the lobster larvae stay in the midwater zone and focus on catching food instead of swimming.
There’s a catch though, if they stay together for too long, the lobster larva or the jelly could end up eating one another. What a way to end the friendship!!
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