Help identifying creature.

My guess would be Crayfish.

Yeah, crayfish, crawfish, crawdaddy.

I can't tell perspective from that, but it looks really really tiny.

Find some more and have a boil.

I'll never forget the day my father came over to my house telling me there are lobsters crossing the road. I live 30 mi from the ocean. I had to explain they were freshwater crayfish.

Richard

A quick scan lists 51 species of crayfish in the State of Kentucky.

The best way to handle them is with boiling water, butter and garlic, or with a good cajun sauce. Don't forget to suck the heads.

At the creek behind my childhood home we used to catch those in buckets. And then we put them back again.

NeuroFizz said:

Don't forget to suck the heads.

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Really? Because this Chinese buffet we go to has them. You can eat the gooky head insides, too? I've always wondered, The body and head don't look particularly appetizing. Just the tail does.

If you get a sudden urge to go fishing, catfish love crawdads.

Shadow_Ferret said:

Really? Because this Chinese buffet we go to has them. You can eat the gooky head insides, too? I've always wondered, The body and head don't look particularly appetizing. Just the tail does.

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Ask any Cajun...

http://www.crawdads.net/feed/nutrition/index.htm

NeuroFizz said:

Ask any Cajun...

http://www.crawdads.net/feed/nutrition/index.htm

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I'm a Yank. About 1000 miles from the nearest Cajun.

But now I get to teach my 8-year-old he can eat that part, too. He always asked and I said, "Just eat the tail."

I don't know if I could eat one of those. And if I saw them cross the road I'd probably freak.
Then again, here in Jersey, I used to jog with turkey vultures not too far from me ... minding their own business but still, one never knows.

You couldn't eat the crayfish around here. The biggest wouldn't be much bigger than your thumbnail. When your summer lasts 8 weeks and your winter lasts 24, critters don't get much of a chance to grow.

I'm in California - just this weekend I was out hiking and there were a TON of crayfish all along the stream! I poked a big one with a stick and he tried to fight with it a bit. I was wondering if they ever came out of the water... question answered!

Shadow_Ferret said:

The body and head don't look particularly appetizing. Just the tail does.

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*snickers*

TrainofThought said:

*snickers*

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Mmmmmmmmmmmm, snickers...

Mmmm. *boiling water*

I love tail.




Dorkiestthreadevah

We have these in the pond near my apartment in Chicago. You rarely see them out of the water, but the recent flooding seems to have stirred them up a bit.