There's nothing like sharing the love, but officials as far north as North Carolina aren't smiling over the latest invasive species making its way up the East Coast from Florida: blue land crabs.

Georgia officials recently asked for the public's help in spotting non-native blue land crabs. But further down the coast in Florida, officials are accustomed to the spiny ocean crawlers.

Blue Land Crabs are native from Brazil to South Florida, according to the Georgia release. In Florida, blue land crab fishing is regulated with a designated season and quantity limits. Georgia's ...

The blue land crabs (Cardisoma guanhumi) are found from coastal Brazil to Florida. Up until last year, the crustaceans were rarely found in South Carolina, with only about a dozen reports since ...

These land crabs are very different from the marine blue crabs. Blue land crabs are originally from Central America and parts of south Florida. They recently started expanding north to South Georgia ...

If stone crabs look abundant in the Keys, the crab traps on Florida’s Gulf Coast ... hurling the boats onto land or sinking them. “There’s a good percentage of west coast fishermen ...

Another option is blue land crabs, along with other Florida species, are experiencing natural range expansion as waters and temperatures warm due to climate change, South Carolina Department of ...

Caribbean king crabs occur naturally in the Florida Keys in a population density ... Mote received two grants, $253,654 to establish a land-based coral nursery on Key Largo, as well as purchase ...