Camera Critters

Crayfish that my grandson caught today at the river, poor thing was barely alive, he said he was going to cook and eat it, i said put it in the pond but i guess he wanted to eat it, don't know if he did or not.

Click on photo for better viewing Crayfish, also called crawfish or crawdad, are closely related to the lobster. More than half of the more than 500 species occur in North America, particularly Kentucky (Mammoth Cave) and Louisiana in the Mississippi basin. Crayfish also live in Europe, New Zealand, East Asia and throughout the world, including the Tristan da Cunha Islands. Nearly all live in freshwater, although a few survive in salt water. Crayfish are characterised by a joined head and thorax, or midsection, and a segmented body, which is sandy yellow, green, or dark brown in colour.