Just found this guy in the stream beside my house in Meath, didn’t even know we had freshwater crayfish in Ireland! 🦞

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1. Think they’re invasive? (Someone more knowledgeable may confirm or debunk that)

   Almost certain I seen a sign up beside a stream a few years back.

2. We do actually have [one native species](https://biodiversityireland.ie/crayfish-regulations/), for which Ireland is an important reserve as it’s threatened elsewhere.

3. Ireland even has wild lizards… Believe it or not

4. Dat shit cray cray

5. Night of the Killer Crayfish movie coming soon.

6. I’d say you lucky they like clean water 😉

7. My parents live near the grand canal in Kildare, growing up we used to see absolutely tons of these. There’s so few around now.

8. Invasive fuckers. Eat him.

9. Was the crawdad singing?

10. I know we have some native crayfish but I wouldnt recognise the different species.

    However crayfish are good bio-indicators of clean water due to their sensitivity to pollutants. Nice to have clean streams nearby

11. Believe it or not ! Despite been called Crayfish they aren’t actually fish.

12. In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn’t commit. These crustaceans promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Meath underground. Today, still wanted by the government they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them….maybe you can hire The Cray-Team.