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What marine creatures stick to the bottom of boats?
That's why some boaters call them by their slang name: "crusty foulers." How do barnacles stick to the undersides of vessels, to other sea life, to ea...
How do barnacles grow and develop?
Adult. Typical acorn barnacles develop six hard calcareous plates to surround and protect their bodies. ... Once metamorphosis is over and they have r...
Were do you find barnacles?
If you walk along the sea shore, you can find barnacles on almost any solid surface that gets covered by water. On rocks, dock pilings, boats, even mu...
What is a barnacle's size?
Barnacles vary in size from less than half an inch to 1 inch in diameter, and have six overlapping grayish or whitish shell plates. They have a flat b...
What eats barnacles?
Among the most common predators on barnacles are whelks. They are able to grind through the calcareous exoskeletons of barnacles and feed on the softe...
What are some physical characteristics of a barnacle?
Adults have white, pink, red, purple, yellow, or brown bodies and live on their heads, upside down, in cone-shaped shells. In most crustaceans, the ca...
What are the predators of the barnacle?
Barnacles feed on plankton they sweep from the water with their fan-like feet. Their main predators are whelks--snails that envelop the barnacle's con...
How do barnicles attach themselves on to whales?
As barnacles mature, they build their shells around their soft bodies and form tube-shaped cavities within it that anchor them to the whale, which rep...
How do barnacles stick to ships?
When a barnacle wants to stick to something, it opens up a capillary and bleeds. The sticky torrent of enzymes and fibrous tissues that follows gloms ...