#crayfish

[buttermander]

Personal Headcanon that after the events of LAD: Infinite Wealth Kasuga ended up keeping Olivia with him and Nancy in order to both keep the crab safe and also so the two crustaceans could remain together. Kasuga Ichiban is the resident crustacean guy and he loves these arthropods to death, treats them like actual people. God I love these characters already.

#yakuza like a dragon #like a dragon #like a dragon infinite wealth #ryu ga gotoku #rgg #crayfish

[teathattast]

#reddit #reddit memes #crayfish

[bedupolker]

Half Life

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#comic #traditional art #the symposium #scorpion #crayfish #crustacean #arachnid #my art #long #long post

[herpsandbirds]

Crayfish (Cherax pulcher), family Parastacidae, from freshwater streams in West Papua, Indonesia

photograph by Christian Lukhaup | ZooKeys

#crayfish #crustacean #cherax #parastacidae #new guinea #asia #animals #nature

[vforvalensa]

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Crayfish imported from france

#allo allo #dr. slump #akira toriyama #manga #crayfish #bugs

[tkingfisher]

Right! Apropos another post, let’s talk about lawn crayfish aka The Lobsters Beneath Our Feet!

This is Craw-Bob. He’s about three and a half inches long.

Long ago, when I had only gardened in the Southeast for a year or two, I saw an interesting hole in a flowerbed. It was rather deep and had a muddy front porch. I gazed into this hole, thinking “Ooh! Is it a rodent? A snake? A toad?”

And then I saw…the Claw.

It was unmistakably a crustacean claw. And it was in a hole in my yard. My terrestrial yard! Why was there a crustacean in my flowerbed?!

I could not have been more astounded if an octopus tentacle had come flopping out. I ran screaming for my husband and the internet, both of whom said “Yeah, that’s a lawn crayfish, they do that.”

And yes. There are about 400 species of crayfish* in North America, and a not inconsiderable number of them are burrowing species. The devil crayfish, which builds little mud towers, ranges from the Rockies to the Atlantic and as far north as Ontario. There are a number of other species as well. Some are limited to stream banks, but many burrow in lawns, flowerbeds, and other places with consistently damp soil, which means that there is a non-zero chance that when you wander around the grass, a tiny lobster is lurking somewhere beneath your feet.

You would think that more people would know this, but at no point in my life had anyone ever mentioned it to me.

Being me, I immediately set out to determine if other people knew about lawn crayfish and I had just somehow missed it. I took an informal poll—by which I mean I accosted random strangers at the farmer’s market, the coffee shop, and my doctor’s office—and discovered a stark divide. Half the people looked at me like I was telling them I’d seen a lawn chupacabra and the other half looked at me like I’d asked if they’d ever heard of squirrels.

It was not divided by social class or education. The farmer with the heirloom breed hogs knew about them, his wife did not. My nurse practitioner first thought I was hallucinating, then went out into the clinic, and began demanding to know if her co-workers had heard of this. My barista was like “Yeah, mudbugs,” but he’s from Florida, so may not count.

My theory is that if you know they’re there, it’s just a fact of life so obvious that you don’t bother to comment on it, and if you don’t—well, why would you ever assume that any given hole in the ground comes from a goddamn MINI LOBSTER? And since they mostly just hang out underground during the day and don’t really hurt anything, it just doesn’t come up very often, until one day you’re at the farmer’s market, just trying to sell some organic tomatoes, and a wild-eyed woman with a Studio Ghibli T-shirt descends on you yelling “Are you aware of lawn crayfish?!”

(Yes, they’re edible, but it’s a lot of work popping them individually out of their burrows.)

During torrential rains, they will often leave their burrows and wander around, which is how I got the photos of Craw-Bob. My hound spotted him in the garden and poked him with her nose, whereupon Craw-Bob poked back. Hound, not sure what was happening but that it was probably bad, began doing her “release the humans!” alarm bark, and I came out to find her toe to toe with a crustacean who was waving its claws and presumably screaming “Come on if you think you’re hard enough!” in Lobster.

Despite their willingness to fight everything, they’re pretty harmless. The most they do is move soil from underground to a little pile above. I’m sure golf courses hate them. Our local county extension office suggests “These nonprolific creatures should be appreciated like an interesting bird or turtle living on the property.” Some, like the Greensboro burrowing crayfish, are so rare they were thought to be extinct until somebody found one in the backyard.

So. Lawn crayfish. They exist! And could be lurking underfoot as we speak!

*or crawfish, depending on where you’re from.

#crayfish #crawfish #crustaceans #nature

[serps-up]

he must have some sort of condition

#fishblr #fish #crayfish #crawdad #aquarium #shrimp #satire

[aggiepython]

@canisalbus's iconic dogs vasco and machete as the moon tarot card

more info and crayfish-related babbling under the cut

honestly this one was almost entirely motivated by spite. i saw one too many artsy versions of this tarot card that don't include the crayfish, dog and wolf and i was filled with a blinding rage. i'm not at all into tarot but i do have an unhealthy obsession with arthropods and it makes me deeply sad when they're ignored. i then realised the dog and wolf look kinda like vasco and machete if u squint and i knew what i had to do.

the crayfish is an Austropotamobius pallipes which is found in Italy. sadly it's endangered due to crayfish plague and competition from other invasive crayfishes. the shrubs are Juniperus communis which is also found in Italy. hopefully both of these are at least kind of accurate. don't ask about the reeds they're just generic reeds... sadly my patience for looking up plants on wikipedia is limited.

crayfish are most definitely not fish (although dogs are technically lobe-finned fish! all tetrapods are, including humans) their name comes from the old french word "escrevisse" which sounds kinda similar to fish and got morphed into "crayfish". folk etymology is neat...

#my art #crayfish #tarot #canisalbus #furry

[typhlonectes]

Texas zoo hatches brood of rare, ghostlike crayfish species

The hatchlings also mark the second-ever breeding of a blind, white, and 'cave-adapted' crayfish.

Another Texas zoo is celebrating a historic milestone in the restoration of a critically endangered species. This week, the San Antonio Zoo announced the births of 47 Oklahoma Cave Crayfish (Cambarus tartarus). Born at the zoo's Center for Conservation and Research (CCR), the crayfish are the first-ever to be hatched under the care of humans. 

Known as one of the rarest crayfish species in North America, the Oklahoma Cave Crayfish is no more than three inches in length, with a white or colorless appearance, according to the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation. The crayfish, which have no external eyes, thin pinchers and legs, are most at risk from groundwater pollution. Direct disturbance of their caves, which are limited to a single county in northeast Oklahoma, is also a critical threat. The state has listed the species as "state endangered." However, the species is undergoing review for possible inclusion on the endangered species list by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service...

Read more: https://www.chron.com/life/wildlife/article/texas-zoo-rare-crayfish-18364707.php

#crayfish #crustacean #endangered #conservation #caves #animals #nature #science #environment #texas #north america

[taxonomytournament]

Taxonomy Tournament: Crustaceans

Decapods. This order includes crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, and prawns.

Isopoda. This order is made up of isopods, including terrestrial species like the potato bug and aquatic species like the giant isopod. Some eat dead matter, others are filter feeders, and some are parasites, mostly of fish.

#10 vs = #animals #biology #polls #poll tournament #zoology #crabs #lobsters #crayfish #shrimp #prawns #arthropods #crustaceans #ecdytes #isopods #animal parasite #Decapods #Isopoda #0x32v0x4d

[snototter]

A crayfish (Procambarus spiculifer) in Ellijay River, Georgia, USA

by Alan Cressler

#crayfish #crustaceans #procambarus spiculifer #procambarus #Cambaridae #decapoda #Malacostraca #arthropoda #wildlife: georgia #wildlife: usa #wildlife: north america

[creepymutelilbugger]

#stolen from discord #196 #rule #shitpost #crayfish #crustacean nation #inverts #crustaceans

[hamletisintown]

Throwback to that one time I painted an entire crayfish and it may have been the drawing I ever took the most time on. And then I never posted it.

So here you go, crayfish study painting + the ref pic (a photograph from Chris Lukhaup) I used.

I traced the picture and then freehand painted it by color picking from the ref pic. I mostly wanted to try and reproduce the textures, and also just have fun! It didn't need to be a 1:1 realistic reproduction, and in fact I'm pretty happy with how it turned out, I think it's really satisfying to look at.

#art #my art #art study #bugs #crustaceans #crayfish

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Horror Insects by Regimanta

This artist on Instagram

#art #illustration #digital art #dark art #fantasy #insects #bugs #crayfish #spider #for blacklisting purposes #black and white #creature design

[herpsandbirds]

Chatooga River Crayfish (Cambarus scottii), family Cambaridae, found along the east coast of Canada and the U.S.

photograph by Guenter Schuster, Eastern Kentucky University

#crayfish #crustacean #cambarus #cambaridae #animals #nature #north america

[rhetthammersmithhorror]

Teenagers from Outer Space | 1959

#Teenagers from Outer Space #mst3k #kaiju #horror #science fiction #David Love #Tom Graeff #practical effects #hammersmith horror #lobster #seafood #crayfish #epic battle #monster