Whenever it rains a lot (as during Hurricane Irene's brush-by, when this image was captured [Oct 99]), mushrooms pop up in abundance on Sapelo, including in the transition zone from saltmarsh to terrestrial forest, where marsh-edge squareback crabs (Armases cinereum) roam. The bright golden-yellow wood- decay mushrooms in this image are favorite foods of marsh-edge squarebacks; one crab is eating a hole in one of the mushrooms in this image, and other crab-eaten patches can be seen in other mushrooms in this group, along with a fecal pellet or two. If a horde of crabs were to find this batch of mushrooms, they could devour a substantial part of the batch, before the mushrooms began to autolyze.