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“In the summers, my father had me in the barber shop. His father had a barber shop in Falmouth and came back to the family in New Bedford on weekends. When he was 5 years old, Dufresne’s parents bought a three-decker house in New Bedford so that he could get a Canadian parochial education. Dufresne had three sisters, one brother and two half brothers, he said. His father and his father’s four brothers were all barbers. “I’ve always worked.”ĭufresne’s father, who was from Canada, was a widower who moved to Falmouth in 1928, where he met and married Dufresne’s mother. On the morning of his 91st birthday, Dufresne said he had a doctor’s appointment scheduled for that afternoon “to find out if I’m going to be alive the rest of my life,” he joked.īefore his doctor’s appointment, he had a shift to pull at Main Street Barber Shop. See the DONATION BUTTON AT THE TOP OF THE PAGE ***** ***** Please support independent local journalism. “I walked in the shop to commend them on the decorations,” he said. The shop had recently been purchased by Oliveira. One day this spring, with the pandemic easing, he was driving on Main Street when he noticed new decorations in the Main Street Barber Shop. “My common sense said I needed to do something.” “My happy hours got earlier and earlier,” he said. Also, he has a barber’s chair set up in his house.īut when the pandemic hit and he closed his barbershop, he found he wasn’t working a lot. When Andy’s closed, Dufresne took a mobile barber kit around town to give haircuts. And even before that, he said, “I never missed it in that I never actually stopped.” “He’s certainly experienced.”ĭufresne has been working at his new job for a couple of weeks. “He’s been excellent,” said Silvana Oliveira, the owner of Main Street Barber Shop. Will often recycle this decoration when sheds shell.Andy Dufresne, left, and Main Street Barber owner Silvana Oliveira, right, giving haircuts one recent morning. Most common crab seen in NZ rock pools – hides under boulders and amongst seaweeds.ĭecorates its shell and legs with seaweeds and sponges. Omnivorous scavengers – eat decaying seaweed, mussels and dead paua.įemale lays fertilised eggs, from which larvae emerge. He formally named eight new New Zealand crab species last year, and has descriptions of another ten new crab species in the pipeline. He is one of 18 experts who recently revised the classification of all the world’s decapod species (which includes crabs), whose numbers now stand at more than 14760. New Zealand waters are home to 170 known species of crab, but there are undoubtedly more out there waiting to be discovered.ĭr Shane Ahyong is a taxonomist (a scientist who formally identifies and describes species) at NIWA in Wellington. The warmer the water and the younger the crab, the faster they grow and, therefore, moult. They do this, on average, every few months. “When they shed their shell, they’ll sometimes remove their decoration and attach it to their new shell.”Īll crabs shed their shells to grow. “They only eat dead or dying stuff, because they’re too slow to catch live animals.” “They need the camouflage, because they’re pretty slow moving and don’t have powerful claws,” says Dr Ahyong. The hairy seaweed crab’s tropical cousins will decorate their bodies with soft corals and anemones. The sponges could also help in defence, because of the neurotoxins they contain.”
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“You’ll often find small crustaceans living amongst the seaweeds on its back, along with worms and sponges. “These act like Velcro – the crab simply grabs stuff and hooks it on,” says Dr Ahyong. Although you can find it during the day, it’s most active at night (another predator-avoidance strategy).Īs with all decorator crabs, this species has stiff hairs known as ‘hook setae’ all over the upper side of its body and legs. It can be found in the intertidal zone all around New Zealand, usually hiding under boulders in amongst brown seaweed. The hairy seaweed crab is the most common decorator crab seen in New Zealand rock pools, and one of 43 known spider crabs found in New Zealand waters. They’re slow movers that rely on disguise to evade predators, decorating their shells with whatever flotsam and jetsam comes to claw. The decorator crabs, or camouflaged crabs, are very different creatures from the paddle crab.