Friday, September 11, 2009

Female burrowing crayfish with young hanging onto belly near Pinnacle Prairie trail on September 10, 2009

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Burrowing crayfish September 10, 2009, on wet surface near flow area through Pinnacle Foods Inc. wet prairie west side of World Peace Wetland Prairie in Fayetteville, Arkansas, held by Robert Jackson for Aubrey James Shepherd photo. Crayfish is a female with several young clinging to her underside. Released unharmed after a couple of minutes of gentle handling.
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1 comment:

Curtis Presley said...

Aubrey, these are absolutely the most amazing photos I've seen in a while. We have crayfish in our ditch. This makes me want to wait and catch them, look at them and hope to see their young.