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In the Netherlands at least, an American species of freshwater crayfish has almost completely replaced the native species and its ecosystem is unprepared for it
by Scarblac 7y ago
In the Netherlands at least, an American species of freshwater crayfish has almost completely replaced the native species and its ecosystem is unprepared for it.
And grey squirrels in the UK, of course.
There must be more.
- swarnie_ 7y agoSimilar situation in the UK, we used to haul crayfish out of our sailing lake each year by the boatload.
- smackay 7y agoAmerican freshwater crayfish infest all the rice fields here in Portugal. They cause a lot of damage to irrigation and drainage ditches but the number of things that eat them is enormous. It's probably the major reason White Storks here no longer migrate to Africa in the winter. At Vila Franca de Xira, near Lisboa, when the rice is harvested in October, you can see hundreds of thousands of ibis, herons, gulls, flamingos, egrets, spoonbills, storks, waders and everything else you can think of eating crayfish of all sizes.
- rascul 7y agoMud bugs and squirrels can make good meals, so there's an appetizing way of fighting back.