When I was a kid growing up in the Florida Panhandle we called these: "Skeeter Hawks".
This one was on my clothesline. I wonder what other people call them?
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When I was a kid growing up in the Florida Panhandle we called these: "Skeeter Hawks".
This one was on my clothesline. I wonder what other people call them?
Crayfish.
Northern USA: "Crayfish"
Southern USA: "Crawdad"
Very Southern USA: "Crawdaddy"
So Far Back In The Swamp You Can Hear Ceegar-box Banjos, Bwah: "Crawlpappy"
Nevada: (We don't have those here.)
they should have added “wooder fountain”, they’d have picked me right out right away
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Interesting, I took that survey and it said my most likely location was Aurora, Chicago, or Detroit. I am from Chicago, but went to school in Aurora for a year. I think it guessed Detroit based on a single question, I said the night before Halloween was “Devil’s night”, but nobody around here actually calls it Devil’s night, I just knew that name from horror movies I think :)
I grew up in CA, and I can’t say I ever noticed any geographical preference for the name of those tiny fresh water lobsters. Crawfish, crayfish, crawdads, it’s all the same to me.
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