Mary Akers

Hermit House Founder

Breeder of land hermit crabs, founder of Crab Con and Hermit House.

Jeanne Singhass

Moss Lady

Owner of Because of Crabs (Moss and Such)

Jeff Songster

Crabbing since 2004 | Crab Con Team Member

Crab Survival 101: Steps to Take Before and During a Natural Disaster

Stacy Griffith

LHCOS President

LHCOS President and The Crab Street Journal owner

Pearl Marley

Sentient Souvenirs

Pearl Marley is an independent filmmaker with a passion for animal and environmental advocation documentaries that seek to show the beauty of the natural world and educate people about Nature’s importance to human survival. Sentient Souvenirs is her breakout film after graduate school where she received a MFA in Filmmaking from UNC Wilmington. When she is not filming, Pearl enjoys photography, music, hiking across the islands of the Outer Banks and taking care of her cat and three geckos.

rachael cusick

Radiolab Producer

Rachael is a producer for Radiolab. She started on the show’s Special Projects Unit, where she worked on Radiolab Presents: Gonads and Radiolab Presents: G. Now she mostly spends her time writing about herself in the third person, or trying to craft a masterful pun that makes everyone roll their eyes. Before joining Radiolab, she studied food science and worked as a cheese curd flipper, pastry chef, and egg scrambler. She also spent some time hanging out at NPR, Politico, and Slate.

Christopher Tudge

Professor of Biology

Dr. Tudge is a reproductive biologist with particular interests in the reproductive biology of invertebrates. His research focuses on the reproductive cells and associated structures, evolutionary mechanisms, and reproductive behaviors of marine decapod crustaceans (shrimps, crabs, crayfish and lobsters). He also has experience dealing with other invertebrate and vertebrate groups and his knowledge of reproduction in crustaceans can be directly applied to other taxa. He uses this interest in crustacean reproduction to investigate the evolutionary history (phylogeny) of particular crabs in the marine environment and his work has direct application to aquaculture of commercial species and conservation of marine and freshwater crustaceans.

Christine Sandberg

Crab Keeping with Kids | Crab Con Team Member

Hermit Crab Enthusiast! 5 PPs in a 65 gallon tank. Minnesota. Join me on Instagram @christinescrabcare!

Angela Sayre

Among the Natives: Crustacean Plantation Gets Up-Close-and-Personal with C. clypeatus

Welcome to Crustacean Plantation! In 2019, Angela and her family moved to Tavernier, Florida (the Florida Keys) only to find that they were not the only family in residence. Not long after moving in their 3 dogs; Jimmy Frank, George and Martha started alerting them to the presence of HERMIT CRABS. It was not just one or two hermit crabs but a plethora of wild Hermit Crabs. It appears that their home is perfectly situated by an ocean point 400 feet away and protected county land around their home. Hermit Crabs use their back yard as a short cut in their search for shells and fresh water. It’s essentially a “Hermie Highway”. Angela and family watch over the wild Hermies, while they stop by for a drink of fresh water or a snack under the bird feeder. There are also “Transfer Stations” set up around the yard to allow for Shell Shopping opportunities for those looking to upgrade. The Florida Keys is a Marine Sanctuary and while Hermit Crabs are not endangered, living in a tourist area people love to take home shells as souvenirs of their vacation. Crustacean Plantation hopes to share their story with others in an effort to promote, “take a picture leave the shell” to help preserve wild hermit crabs way of life. Crustacean Plantation is truly a wild Waystation.

Larisa Meeks

Starter Pets: The Unlikely History of Hermit Crab Keeping

Homemaker and Homeschool Tutor, Tennessee, USA

Ned Suesat-Williams

The Crab Museum

Ned is an archaeologist by training, who has worked in secondary state education in the UK and abroad. His lifelong passion for sea-life informs his creative practice, and he has performed as a singing squid in China, Japan and across Europe.

Daniel Kaye

Creator of Milo the Hermit Crab

Milo K. is a hermit crab who lives in a tank on some guy's counter. He is fairly innocent but is interested in all the weirdness of the world.

Jobeth Chay

Ideas for Integrating Hermit Crabs as a Classroom Pet

Jobeth Chay outlines some ideas for integrating hermit crabs into your core curriculum.

Joel Selph

Joel Selph

Crustaceans Helping Crustaceans: Isopods as Your Bioactive Clean-up Crew

Monica Muth

Getting Wise with Wyze

Crab Keeper and Baby Adopter.

Christina Dailey

Local representative

I'm local representative for lhcos and advocate for Land hermit crab's, I also own crazy crab kids group

Kimberly Wischnewski

Homeschooling with Hermies

Kimberly has been homeschooling her kids and will share ideas for expanding the homeschool curriculum to include educational and enriching hermit crab lessons.

Tricia Landers

Just An Old Crab

I became a hermit crab advocate in early 2016 when given one was given to me on a whim. I began researching how to care for hermit crabs. After learning how misunderstood they were and how much wrong and outright dangerous information is out there, I wanted to get involved in proper care and education of hermit crabs. I was lucky enough to come across Crabstreetjournal.org. From there, I found their Facebook group called Land Hermit Crab Owners Society. There was so much information! It can be a tad overwhelming at first, but this wonderful group took their time to help me learn and get involved in helping these little dudes. Beginning with the best foods that they love that will help them thrive! Watch your crabby babies come to life after enjoying a proper healthy and tasty meal!

Shawn Miller

Wildlife photographer

Shawn Miller is a wildlife photographer based in Okinawa, Japan. He documents the wild hermit crabs of Okinawa and their use of trash as shells. He then offers the crabs an opportunity to "exchange" their trash homes for beautiful, natural shells.

Suzanne Whaley

Getting Wise with Wyze

Suzanne Whaley LOVES having a Wyze camera in her crabitat and is here to tell us all about its many uses and offer troubleshooting tricks.

Patricia Newman

Children's Book Author and Environmentalist

SHOW AND TELL: Kids are the Experts