Escaped cloned mutant crayfish take over a graveyard
@GardenGerty (161893)
United States
October 25, 2020 6:55am CST
I will give you a link to the article on Yahoo. It caught my eye this morning.
It seems like a Halloween story for sure.
Recapping, this is a species that is not allowed by the EU and it escaped the lab. It has taken over a cemetery in Antwerp.
It sounds like a fitting problem for 2020, and for Halloween. Attack of the zombie crawdads!
Escaped self-cloning mutant crayfish created in experimental breeding programmes have invaded a Belgian cemetery. Hundreds of the duplicating crustaceans, which can dig down to up to a metre and are always female, pose a deadly threat to local biodiversity
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@sweetshayens (328)
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25 Oct 20
It's like a horror movies where mutant creature invade housing area :-)
Does it have poison or attack people? My experience with a bulk animal was when we got hundreds catterpillars swarmed over our house that made our skin itching by their hairs :-)
We thought it was because of the decreasing of their predator which is a kind of bird
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@GardenGerty (161893)
• United States
25 Oct 20
Not poisonous, thankfully, and it does not attack people. Some people even eat them. They look like little bitty lobsters. I wonder what would like to eat them? I am sorry you had a caterpillar invasion, that would be upsetting too.
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@sweetshayens (328)
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26 Oct 20
@GardenGerty Thaty's good, if it happened in my place, we would harvest the crayfish and process it to be fried snack and sold to tourists, hehehe
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@wolfgirl569 (110657)
• Marion, Ohio
25 Oct 20
That is why we need to stop playing with nature
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Of course nature would find a way . . . but it says they do not occur in nature? Humans try to play Dr. Frankenstein too often - what good does it do to make monsters 
?@GardenGerty (161893)
• United States
27 Oct 20
It has me baffled. Often what happens is science wanting uniform specimens to try things on will genetically alter their subject. I am not sure if that is actually what happened here.
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@much2say (56924)
• Los Angeles, California
27 Oct 20
@GardenGerty I don't know what happened there, but they better figure out how they're going to control that mess!
@GardenGerty (161893)
• United States
25 Oct 20
I wonder if they could do something that would repel them without poisoning them. Or get ducks or something that likes to eat them.
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@GardenGerty (161893)
• United States
27 Oct 20
@LadyDuck In Louisiana and southern parts of the US they eat "crawdads" which is what they call crayfish. My grandparents and uncles used them as fish bait. I do not suppose a duck could it it unless it was a baby.
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@LadyDuck (472428)
• Switzerland
27 Oct 20
@GardenGerty I have spent two weeks in New Orleans and visited Louisiana I had boiled crayfish with red potatoes and corn. Ducks can surely eat the crayfish but I have seen the size of those mutant crayfish they are as big as small lobsters with big claws and hard shell.
@crazyhorseladycx (39509)
• United States
25 Oct 20
how terribly sad :( i don't reckon mankind'll e'er figure out that tinkerin' with mother nature 'tis not a good idea. they didn't mention'n the article ('r i missed such, many 'nterruptions) 'bout natural predators fer these lil beasts?
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@GardenGerty (161893)
• United States
27 Oct 20
Besides humans, large fish, otters, mink and the like prey on them. I read that crayfish are eaten a lot in Scandinavia as well as around the world.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39509)
• United States
27 Oct 20
@GardenGerty would ya wish to consume a mutant crayfish by the tons? folks'n louisiana eat lots 'f crayfish. dunno if'n they could make a dent'n these populations though.
@GardenGerty (161893)
• United States
25 Oct 20
It is, and the trouble initially was man made.
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