 As mentioned in the diet section, decorating behavior of seaweed crabs is thought to be a method of food storage in addition to camouflage.A study conducted by Woods and McLay (1994) explores this decorating behavior more in depth.Their study revealed that these crabs consume their camouflage materials most often when food is scarce but that it is still important as a food store during other times because they eat it even when other food sources are present.