I wiped the sleep out of my eyes this morning, put on my flip-flops and ambled across the drive-way to pick up the newspaper, when I saw this little guy trudging toward the hedges. The mudbug (we'll call him Manny. Manny the Mudbug), or Connie Crayfish, if you'd prefer, seemed a little far from home, but I suppose he'd be comfortable enough in the pond two hundred-fifty feet or so to the back of the lot. Maybe that's what he had in mind. Here he is in action:
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
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That's one tiny critter! We saw little fiddler crabs on Sunday evening skittering around the mangroves.
Fiddler crabs rock! They also look like little bugs. Neither crustacean- unless they're in bunches- makes much of a meal.
I have eaten crawfish, and found them to be mighty tasty....I would truly like to hear from someone who has eaten Fiddler crabs!!! :) fdb
If they ate 'em in New York, they'd be called "violin crabs"...
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