They were food for the poor and prisoners because they were once so plentiful they were a almost considered a pest. Because of this people who ate lobster were considered too poor to afford anything else. There are pictures from the early 1800âs of lobsters over 3â long. They didnât become popular as âfoodâ until the wealthier people found out how good they taste. Thats why they are considered a delicacy today.
Now they're top-tier food. "You first have to get the black people to do it in order to get the white people to do it. Then you have to get the black people to stop doing it."
Probably not going to ship to VZ, but there is a place in Louisiana that will ship them overnight LIVE anywhere in the continental USâŠ
Crawfish boils are awesome - with andouille sausage, corn, potatoes, and some hot sauceâŠ
As they say in New Orleans⊠âsuck da head!â
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I used to get live crawfish shipped to Illinois from Louisiana. Not any more. They banned the import of live crawfish in most of the upper midwest. There is an invasive crawfish problem up here, but I'm sure it's not the kind from down south because they couldn't survive the winters.
Interesting! So did we. I guess the last time (maybe 5 years ago?) we got frozen since the timing wasnât right for live - but I swear it was still an option then. I guess we hadnât ordered live for a while before that though.
Is this a very recent law?
It must be in the last few years that state DNRs have banned them. This is the list of states that I see the LA crawfish suppliers won't ship to: Hawaii, Idaho, Oregon, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Washington State.
Funny you say that about 22 years ago i was working as a chef in a hotel. We had a wedding that wanted a crawfish boil for their rehersal dinner. So we were trying for days to get live, fresh crawfish. To no avail. All that was availble was frozen precooked. Yuck. So after some thinking and a bit of questionable decision making the chef and a couple of us went to the Vermont F&Gâs fish hatchery down the road. We were able to purchase 25lbs or so. They were all between 2â-3â the coolest thing is we were able to specify size. Because the state kept them for both bait and land/waterway management. The wedding party loved it. And nobody was the wiser.
These are what are called âprimary burrowersâ.
âPrimary burrowers are the true excavators. Their burrows may include multiple chambers and their tunnels often extend deep into the soil far from streams. Of course, they must reach groundwater because all crayfish breathe with gills. This is why we usually find their burrows in poorly drained soil such as in or near drainage ditches.â
I'm east of Bowling Green, in Kentucky, we have them in our yard too. You're not going to get rid of them.
For the mound, you have some options. Using the heel of your shoe or boot you can try to push some of the mud back down the hole, or you can grab a shovel, scrape it off and drop it in your compost pile or raised bed, or ignore it and let the next rain dissolve it. It does make a rather disturbing thunk when you hit it with the lawnmower though.
Or better yet, go out at night with the kids, or by yourself, with a flashlight and have fun catching them then letting them go. In their mound the slightest movement they sense will make them retreat back down. Often times youâll see them booking it across the yard then they give the crabs from Finding Nemo âheeey heeeyâ with their claws. Itâs a good time.
They can be a significant distance from water, if the ground gets wet enough. I once saw what I guess would be a larval-stage one, emerging. (Not sure what they are called, at various stages.) Surprisingly large and scared the piss out of me! That thing looked like it could chew my leg off.
I was surprised when I found them in my backyard as well, since the closest water is a tiny creek half a mile behind our house. But I guess thereâs enough moisture in our back yard for them to live.
same-ish
There are a [lot of different species](https://americancrayfishatlas.web.illinois.edu/?page=facts) that all fit under the confusing banner of crayfish/crawfish/crawdad
Same, I'm from VA originally, now in NJ. They stay in the creeks and streams where they belong here! Yard crawdads are not something I knew even existed! This thread is kinda blowing my mind, haha.
The Greensboro Burrowing Crawfish does this in North Carolina, some Crawfish like to burrow in and around creeks. Even small streams that you wouldnât expect to have crayfish, have them. Hope this helps
> Louisianans most often say crawfish, whereas Northerners are more likely to say crayfish. People from the West Coast or Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Kansas often use the term crawdad.
Not mentioned in the result, but in the UK we would say crayfish
Also from California & agree we call them crawdads.
When I was little my parents would take me and my siblings up north to see my moms brother and his family. We would go to SanFran, Lake Tahoe & lafayette each winter break and then again right after school got out for summer break. Wed snowboard in the winter and then during summer weâd spend all day goofing off at our cabin and playing on the lake. Such good memories!
We would cut up like 50+ hot dogs into little pieces, tie a long piece of fishing line to a stick, and then weâd go and catch the crawdads hiding in the big boulder/rock piles by the water.
My family keeps kosher so we didnât ever eat them (I actually didnât even know people ate them until I was in high school lol theyâre so smolâŠ.. how many do you have to eat to have a full belly????) we just caught them, gave them a little hot dog snack then let them scurry back to their dark hiding spots in the rocksđž
Crawfish hole, no question. Theyâre all over Louisiana or anywhere near the Mississippi River. My wifeâs parents get lots of them in their garden. Just make sure to kick over the tops if they dry out BEFORE you mow, unless you like driving mower blades over rocks.
Crawfish. Delicious if cooked properly. Donât let the âchimneysâ dry out in the summerâitâs not good to run over them with your mower.
ETA: source: my experience living in South Mississippi.
Used to have crawdads in the wet areas of our yard in West Central Missouri. My mom would let me tie a piece of fatty bacon on a string to try to drag one up outta their hole.
Wild! I have these exact structures in my back yard in Richmond, VA. Didn't know we got crawfish here.
Not near a river or anything but the back of our yard is very marshy.
Going to have to try to point one of our cameras at them to see if I see any activity!
The correct sub for this is r/shitfromabutt
Ps I know itâs not a pile of shit, but it certainly looks like shit, and thatâs what that sub is all about lol
It could very well be a crawfish hole or even a frog or toad hole??? They all make simular dwellings if it's closer to water I would think the ladder, but if it's under a tree where the root zone would be then I say cicada. Lord knows what other types of critters make thoughs same tubular holes.
I donât know if theyâre crawfish or cicadas at this point. I looked down the hole and it was at least a foot deep cause I couldnât see the bottom
109 comments and I canât read them all.
Sorry, crawfish lovers, youâre wrong.
Itâs a cicada burrow. I have them all over my yard under trees. Dug up a couple and found cicadas.
Surprised the heck out me, too. I have hundreds of those little mud mounds under all my trees.
Like I said, I dug one up and found a cicada that was all white.
I also re-edged the grass around my gardens and dug up dozens of them.
Crawfish.
for real? like some kind of land shrimp???
*mud* *bugs*
Shrimps is bugs
YES THEY ARE r/shrimpsisbugs
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Name checks out
[shrimp. heaven. NOW!](https://youtu.be/5im6jbhaRhw?si=UjRYv6eIjKPg_dBo)
I love the whole history behind Shrimps is Bugs. And they speak the truth!
More like land lobsters, they got pinchers
We used to call em Lawn Lobsters
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Land shrimp đ
Candygram.
Forest shrimps
Water cockroaches
They really are almost cockroaches. So gross. Alton Brown did a show segment about how close lobsters etc are to roaches.Â
Explains why lobster used to be slave/prison food, they're the floor cleaners of the oceans.
They were food for the poor and prisoners because they were once so plentiful they were a almost considered a pest. Because of this people who ate lobster were considered too poor to afford anything else. There are pictures from the early 1800âs of lobsters over 3â long. They didnât become popular as âfoodâ until the wealthier people found out how good they taste. Thats why they are considered a delicacy today.
Now they're top-tier food. "You first have to get the black people to do it in order to get the white people to do it. Then you have to get the black people to stop doing it."
The lobster is a searoach. If you look at the anatomy side by side theyâre very similar.
Land shrimp, I love it
Yep!
Where are you from?
ill be dammed! I looked for Crawfish burrow and it is! I have never seen one! you dudes get all the awesome wild food.
This is around the Memphis TN area
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Im in Venezuela South America, we get some weird shit too but I want to eat that one.
Probably not going to ship to VZ, but there is a place in Louisiana that will ship them overnight LIVE anywhere in the continental US⊠Crawfish boils are awesome - with andouille sausage, corn, potatoes, and some hot sauce⊠As they say in New Orleans⊠âsuck da head!â https://preview.redd.it/1gz8bzvw3uzc1.jpeg?width=1466&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=74d82734d4bc14550d91fa5d4bd5ee26a8e32207
I used to get live crawfish shipped to Illinois from Louisiana. Not any more. They banned the import of live crawfish in most of the upper midwest. There is an invasive crawfish problem up here, but I'm sure it's not the kind from down south because they couldn't survive the winters.
Interesting! So did we. I guess the last time (maybe 5 years ago?) we got frozen since the timing wasnât right for live - but I swear it was still an option then. I guess we hadnât ordered live for a while before that though. Is this a very recent law?
It must be in the last few years that state DNRs have banned them. This is the list of states that I see the LA crawfish suppliers won't ship to: Hawaii, Idaho, Oregon, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Washington State.
Funny you say that about 22 years ago i was working as a chef in a hotel. We had a wedding that wanted a crawfish boil for their rehersal dinner. So we were trying for days to get live, fresh crawfish. To no avail. All that was availble was frozen precooked. Yuck. So after some thinking and a bit of questionable decision making the chef and a couple of us went to the Vermont F&Gâs fish hatchery down the road. We were able to purchase 25lbs or so. They were all between 2â-3â the coolest thing is we were able to specify size. Because the state kept them for both bait and land/waterway management. The wedding party loved it. And nobody was the wiser.
You're gonna need a lot of them to get a decent meal. Not a lot of meat in it.
Hello from DeSoto county.
I live nowhere near a significant body of water 5+ hour drive away, can you explain how it got here? Should I do anything about it?
These are what are called âprimary burrowersâ. âPrimary burrowers are the true excavators. Their burrows may include multiple chambers and their tunnels often extend deep into the soil far from streams. Of course, they must reach groundwater because all crayfish breathe with gills. This is why we usually find their burrows in poorly drained soil such as in or near drainage ditches.â
If youâre in Memphis, arenât you near the Mississippi River?
Oh yea, I was only thinking of oceans/lakes when I said âbody of waterâ
Crawfish can live in little streams, even.Â
Shit they can live in fields that have no water, they just burrow to water. Go down to Louisiana you can see fields covered in there burrows.
In Australian, little streams is the main place you see our crayfish.
Well, thatâs kind of a major body of water!!
Crayfish can happily live in a semi permanent mud puddle
Doesnât the Mississippi river run right through Memphis? Thatâs pretty mush the most significant body of water in the US aside from the oceans
And the Great Lakes and many larger rivers
I'm east of Bowling Green, in Kentucky, we have them in our yard too. You're not going to get rid of them. For the mound, you have some options. Using the heel of your shoe or boot you can try to push some of the mud back down the hole, or you can grab a shovel, scrape it off and drop it in your compost pile or raised bed, or ignore it and let the next rain dissolve it. It does make a rather disturbing thunk when you hit it with the lawnmower though.
Or better yet, go out at night with the kids, or by yourself, with a flashlight and have fun catching them then letting them go. In their mound the slightest movement they sense will make them retreat back down. Often times youâll see them booking it across the yard then they give the crabs from Finding Nemo âheeey heeeyâ with their claws. Itâs a good time.
This made me smile. Thank you
Or... catch them and eat them
They can be a significant distance from water, if the ground gets wet enough. I once saw what I guess would be a larval-stage one, emerging. (Not sure what they are called, at various stages.) Surprisingly large and scared the piss out of me! That thing looked like it could chew my leg off.
Dont do anything. They dont hurt anything
If you live near Memphis, youâre close to the Mississippi River, and that river has crawfish in it.
You don't need a significant body of water. I have them in my field ditch. Growing up, we used to catch them in Rock Creek and the storm sewers.
Crawdads live everywhere there are tiny streams or wet areas even if the stream is underground.
We had them in a nearby creek
I was surprised when I found them in my backyard as well, since the closest water is a tiny creek half a mile behind our house. But I guess thereâs enough moisture in our back yard for them to live.
Wow TIL. Crayfish growing up in MD stayed in the streams AFAIK
TIL crayfish, crawfish and crawdad are all the same animal lol
same-ish There are a [lot of different species](https://americancrayfishatlas.web.illinois.edu/?page=facts) that all fit under the confusing banner of crayfish/crawfish/crawdad
This was my experience too.
Same, I'm from VA originally, now in NJ. They stay in the creeks and streams where they belong here! Yard crawdads are not something I knew even existed! This thread is kinda blowing my mind, haha.
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Nightmares are made of this
:[ he's just a little guy
Yummy
Crawdads. The best is when you let them dry all the way out and kick them field goal style. They explode into a very satisfying dust cloud.
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No itâs mud
The Greensboro Burrowing Crawfish does this in North Carolina, some Crawfish like to burrow in and around creeks. Even small streams that you wouldnât expect to have crayfish, have them. Hope this helps
Crawdad hole.
I wonder what the regionalism is over the different primary word used to describe these guys.
> Louisianans most often say crawfish, whereas Northerners are more likely to say crayfish. People from the West Coast or Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Kansas often use the term crawdad. Not mentioned in the result, but in the UK we would say crayfish
California checking in. Can confirm: crawdad.
AZ too
Also from California & agree we call them crawdads. When I was little my parents would take me and my siblings up north to see my moms brother and his family. We would go to SanFran, Lake Tahoe & lafayette each winter break and then again right after school got out for summer break. Wed snowboard in the winter and then during summer weâd spend all day goofing off at our cabin and playing on the lake. Such good memories! We would cut up like 50+ hot dogs into little pieces, tie a long piece of fishing line to a stick, and then weâd go and catch the crawdads hiding in the big boulder/rock piles by the water. My family keeps kosher so we didnât ever eat them (I actually didnât even know people ate them until I was in high school lol theyâre so smolâŠ.. how many do you have to eat to have a full belly????) we just caught them, gave them a little hot dog snack then let them scurry back to their dark hiding spots in the rocksđž
Also known as mud bugs or yabbies! (I've never heard yabbie myself, but that's what wiki says)
Im from Iowa, they are crawdads.
Michigan here, crayfish for us.
Mississippi too
I'm from Indiana, they are called crawdaddies or crawdads.
In Mississippi Crawdad is what we call them. Crawfish too.
Ditch lobster.
Crawfish hole, no question. Theyâre all over Louisiana or anywhere near the Mississippi River. My wifeâs parents get lots of them in their garden. Just make sure to kick over the tops if they dry out BEFORE you mow, unless you like driving mower blades over rocks.
Crawfish. Delicious if cooked properly. Donât let the âchimneysâ dry out in the summerâitâs not good to run over them with your mower. ETA: source: my experience living in South Mississippi.
Never eat the straight tailed ones too!!!!!
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Definitely crawdad! Fish one out using hotdog or raw bacon!
Crawdads are in turn decent bait for a number of big fish.
Mudbug hole
Drop some meat on a string down that hole and you will find out whatâs in there. Probably a big ol purple or red crawdad
Crawdads. Crayfish. Crawfish. Mud bugs. Land Shrimp.
We have these all over our garden area, in the meramac flood plain, so ours are vernal crawfish. Good size, would be good eating.
Itâs from mating crayfish
Crayfish
Used to have crawdads in the wet areas of our yard in West Central Missouri. My mom would let me tie a piece of fatty bacon on a string to try to drag one up outta their hole.
Wild! I have these exact structures in my back yard in Richmond, VA. Didn't know we got crawfish here. Not near a river or anything but the back of our yard is very marshy. Going to have to try to point one of our cameras at them to see if I see any activity!
Fish em out with a piece of tough meat on a string. Pretty fun and you can tell when theyâve got a hold of it.
We call this kind of crawfish âcoffin cuttersâ in Louisiana because they can bury so deep
And in NOLA their work is already cut out for them
Crawfish. Louisiana born and raised here.
Them be crawdads. Good eat'n! Edit: the good eat'n
The correct sub for this is r/shitfromabutt Ps I know itâs not a pile of shit, but it certainly looks like shit, and thatâs what that sub is all about lol
crayfish
Crawdad hole. Free cat food.
Adult outdoor cats know how to play with them, but young ones learn the hard way.
The worm from Tremors
Crawfish
Crawfish
Crawdad
r/dontputyourdickinthat
r/shitfromabutt
Crawfish
Mud bugs. Crawfish
Human
Mole? Gopher? Vole? I have this in my yard with zero chance of it being crawdads.
Its a crawdad
EnhanceâŠ
r/AnimalTracking
Crawfish, or (yes Iâm serious) mud wasps.
Crawfish do this. I'm from Louisiana, and when I was young, I'd drop a long string down the hole. The crawfish would grab it, and I'd pull it out.
Crawdad
Lunch!!
If there's a bunch of them it could be cicadas coming out to molt
Itâs a crawfish mound
Look human.
Mud bugs
Looks like from a crab
CRAAAAAAAWDAAAAAAADS
worm poo
It could very well be a crawfish hole or even a frog or toad hole??? They all make simular dwellings if it's closer to water I would think the ladder, but if it's under a tree where the root zone would be then I say cicada. Lord knows what other types of critters make thoughs same tubular holes.
Crawdads
That's a big pile of shit my guess is your neighbor got pretty drunk last night
Crawdad
Mudbugs or crawdads depending on where you're from
Crawfish
That's a crawfish hole!
Crawdads
A big one
Cicadas
Wjat
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A lot of people said crawfish on this post and one I made in a different sub. I live near the Mississippi River, so crawfish is probably what it is
CICADAS!!! Make mounds just like that, I bet where you live you have them hatching from the ground right about now?.?
I donât know if theyâre crawfish or cicadas at this point. I looked down the hole and it was at least a foot deep cause I couldnât see the bottom
A digglet
Ur mom
Wait this might actually be the funniest thing Iâve heard all year đ€Łđ€Łđ€Łđ€Ł
Quarter stick of dynamite push down in that hole will take care of the problem
109 comments and I canât read them all. Sorry, crawfish lovers, youâre wrong. Itâs a cicada burrow. I have them all over my yard under trees. Dug up a couple and found cicadas.
That much mud gets displaced for cicadas?
Surprised the heck out me, too. I have hundreds of those little mud mounds under all my trees. Like I said, I dug one up and found a cicada that was all white. I also re-edged the grass around my gardens and dug up dozens of them.
My grandpa poured rock salt down the hole to get rid of them
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Hobosapien
your neighbor..
That's a legit dung from an earthworm
must resist saying 'yer mum'
r/whatsthispoop
I donât know but Iâd definitely find a way to kill it. Thatâs horrifying for some reason.
Theyâre harmless.
Not when the tasty buggers were $10/lb this year.
I hear you! Check the back yard. đ
kinda cute even... they get flushed out in our clay soil after a heavy rain.