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Wednesday, April 25. 2012

Slipper Shells

Spent a couple of hours on the Connecticut coast this weekend. A vast swath of Common Slipper Shells had washed up during winter storms, a couple of feet deep. People don't eat this mollusc.


(These limpets are different from the European Common Limpet.)


They attach themselves to rocks and other hard objects. Also, to eachother. They move, extremely slowly, if they want to. I tried to figure out whether they have any predators. Supposedly some crabs can eat them, and some of those little snails can bore holes into them. I wonder whether diving ducks can pry them off their attachments, as they do with mussels.



 

Posted by Bird Dog in Natural History and Conservation, Our Essays at 05:55 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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Take some home, put them in a burlap bag and beat it with a length of cord wood, then give the chips and pieces to your chickens.
#1 mitchel44 on 2012-04-25 17:50 (Reply)
Ha!! Whenever I'm at a beach and I run across giant piles of mollusc shells like that, always makes me think "surely there is some good use you can put these too?"

Kind of like Pine Tree pollen here in Georgia. So much of it. Seems such a waste you can't do more with it than make Pine Trees!!
#2 T.K. Tortch on 2012-04-25 18:29 (Reply)
Raw! Grab a bunch from a clean (i.e. no shellfish warnings), and use one edge of the shell to scoop out the meat. They're pretty good.

Cooked they're kind of fishy.
For best cooking results marry a third world woman whose home culture depend upon a great deal of locally caught seafood.
#3 RICanuck on 2012-04-26 08:08 (Reply)

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