Blood+Star

The Blood star is common on protected sides of rocks and in caves or under rocks. It has long thin arms compared to most other sea star. They are orange and red. This starfish usually feeds on sponges, coral, algae, shrimp, and worms. They do not have eyes so they hunt by sense of smell. If they smell something that they want to eat they move themselves over to the food.

When our class went on a trip to the beach we couldn’t just look out and see a whole bunch of sea stars, you had to search for them. We had to move heavy rocks surrounded by barnacles. You never really know what rocks the sea stars are going to be under. The most likely place they will be is underneath a rock that has a pretty large opening at the bottom underneath side so the sea star can get in there comfortably. When we would look under rocks for them we weren’t really sure what we would find. But what we did learn is that sea stars kind of share their rock that they are under with other little creatures.

By: Tiffany