hermit crab trash...

Instead of shells, these hermit crabs used plastic bottle caps and other trash.

Here, a peek at the plastic homes of Okinawa’s hermit crabs. 

A hermit crab using a tree nut as a shell. According to Miller, this used to happen before there was plastic bottle caps to use.

A hermit crab retreating into a plastic bottle cap, photographed with the white portable field studio technique. Here, Miller would place the crab on a white studio board to photograph in situ, before being released.

Using the top of a glass bottle. 

A hermit crab with a laundry detergent cap as a shell.

A plastic-encased hermit crab on Senaga Island in Okinawa. 

 Hermit crabs will fight over shells. 

A hermit crab amid beach trash. 

A hermit crab in Okinawa.