Hermit Day

Hermits, by definition, are people who prefer seclusion to socialization. They spend their lives living separated from the rest of the world. On National Hermit Day, October 29, you can get away from it all and de-stress by spending some time on your own to recharge.

Hermit crabs are omnivorous scavengers, eating microscopic mussels and clams, bits of dead animals, and macroalgae. These crustaceans have been misnamed for two reasons: First, they're not true crabs, like blue crabs, in that they don't have a uniformly hard exoskeleton and can't grow their own shells. They’re more closely related to certain kinds of lobsters than to true crabs.