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EDGEWATER, Md. (AP) - The Chinese mitten crabs found around the Chesapeake and Delaware bays in recent months are mating, scientists confirmed, raising concerns the invasive crab could be making a home in the area.
Scientists say 10 mitten crabs have been reported in the last three years, two of them females. Scientists have confirmed that those females showed evidence of mating, The (Baltimore) Sun reported Tuesday.
Greg Ruiz, senior scientist at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, told the newspaper that despite the evidence of mating in the two crabs, it's too son to know the threat posed to native blue crabs by the smaller Chinese invaders.
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