Florida officials ignore decline of giant land crab

Decades ago around this time of year, there were so many land crabs that the effect was almost biblical, but then they grew scarce, except as roadkill; the giant land crab -- a denizen of mosquito ditches and muddy coastal forests -- is not on the state's endangered species list or even close, though anecdotal evidence suggests its numbers are but a sliver of what they once were, and Florida has taken very limited steps to rectify or even really investigate the decline of its land crabs - Aug. 18, Daytona Beach News-Journal