Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for September 07, 2013

Sounds like the Florida Flora and Fauna (plants and snakes) that idjits bring here, let ‘em loose and go back north, never dreaming of their influence on the environment, having no idea what they’ve done and never cared to begin with.

@Alix

Sometime it’s best never to say a word at all.

Pinchie’s swear words in second panel translate to “Drat! Foiled again!”

Hmm, they are on the west coast, right? The crawdad wasn’t native at the lake then either. Not really Alix’s fault then, she couldn’t have known.

I don’t know about native or not, but I was catching and eating crayfish in a creek in California 60 years ago. Tasty little morsels.

That is SO Jurassic Park!

I said it was a clarkii when Alix first set it free.And it seems to be a rat too.

The dead crayfish?

Gracias,

Glenn

Pinchie displaced herself one heck of a breakfast!

It flew in?

Procambarus clarkii is native to Louisiana. Did Alix et al vacation in Louisiana?

Someone apparently did.

Good idea Crawfish.

I sense an ecology lesson coming from Jan.

I hope Pinchy ends up as a class pet. That way the creek might re-populate.

This is a GREAT lesson for Alix, and one she will always remember! She’s gonna make a great (fill-in-the-blank ecological profession) someday!

“Pacifastacus nigrescens, the sooty crayfish, was a species of crayfish in the family Astacidae. It was originally described in 1857 by William Stimpson from the area around San Francisco, where it was once common in the creeks surrounding San Francisco Bay. The signal crayfish, Pacifastacus leniusculus was introduced to California, probably in the 19th century, and since then, there have been no sightings of P. nigrescens, which is now believed to be extinct.1 Intensive searches of its former habitat have found that every site where it once occurred is now occupied by either the signal crayfish or Procambarus clarkii.”

Wikipedia

If anyone’s hungry, the Louisiana Crawfish Company will be more than happy to sell you crawfish through the mail (Fed-Ex) – or you may prefer their turtle or alligator meat.