Ep. 287 : Considering Crayfish

Crayfish have fascinated me all my life. My mother told me stories of finding bright blue crayfish in streams as she was growing up. I see them now everyday in the river I live and work alongside. Crayfish are plentiful and seem to be throughout the Great Lakes bioregion, but I still don’t know enough about them. I want to know more. Summer is pretty much through, and Autumn is in the air. I can smell it. And really, it’s been a while since I have released a new show, but I have been thinking about this one for a good long time. I just keep getting hung up on the unanswered questions. I hope that just going through the motions, and ignoring the self doubt, might be enough to get back into the game. Photo: Rusty Crayfish in Guelph By Ryan Hodnett - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=97211151, edited for clarity and cropped.To learn more :Field Guide to Crayfishes in Canada (pdf)Crow’s Path Natural History of CrayfishTracks and Sign of Insects and Other Invertebrates by Charley Eiseman and Noah Charney. Stackpole Books, 2010.A Guide To Common Freshwater Invertebrates of North America by J. Reese Voshell, Jr. McDonald & Woodward Publishing Company, 2002.Crayfish Gastroliths, which I didn’t talk about but should have.