like blue crabs, in that they don’t have a uniformly hard exoskeleton and can’t grow their own shells. Instead, hermit crabs have a hard exoskeleton on the front part of their bodies but a ...

In order for crabs to grow, they must shed the outgrown shells. Dungeness crabs molt roughly a dozen times before they reach two-years-old, and then molt about once a year for the rest of their ...