Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for September 05, 2013

Count Crawdad’s, sounds like a good name for a bar in Cajun country.

It’s pretty obvious the “predator” is going to be exposed.

The questions now are will Alix admit to putting it there? And will it be “removed” or left there.

This will end up as a terrific ecology lesson for Alix.

Crawdoodles

The plot thickens!

First cousins to lobsters.

Looks like Alix and Gramma will soon be on their way to Federal prison.

From Wikipedia: Crayfish – also called crawfish,crawdads, freshwater lobsters, or mudbugs – are freshwater crustaceans resembling small lobsters, to which they are related; taxonomically, they are members of the superfamilies Astacoidea and Parastacoidea. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crayfish)

Also looked at the referenced sites, seems like it mostly just the same species, but depending on the place, has different names!

Sorry Crawfish.

My daughter and I still talk about when I took her catching crayfish. I hope her and/or I will be able to to do the same with her children. It’s way fun even when you get pinched.

Jan Eliot is a Northwesterner. In these parts we say “crawdads.”

I see by the comments that Alix isn’t the only marine biologist here…

We used to find cray/crawfish in the nearby frog pond in the old neighborhood where I grew up. Never knew where they came from… and never knew where they went when the pond dried up (or nearly so) in summer.