Escaped cloned female mutant crayfish take over Belgian cemetery

The Telegraph ^ | 10/23/2020 | James Crisp

[sevinufnine]

Escaped self-cloning mutant crayfish created in experimental breeding programs have invaded a Belgian cemetery. Hundreds of the duplicating crustaceans, which can dig down to up to a meter and are always female, pose a deadly threat to local biodiversity after colonizing a historic Antwerp graveyard. “It’s impossible to round up all of them. It’s like trying to empty the ocean with a thimble,” said Kevin Scheers of the Flemish Institute for Nature and Woodland Research. Marbled crayfish, which travel across land and water at night and eat whatever they can, do not occur in nature and are banned by the European Union. Instead the freshwater beasts, which are about 10cm big and voracious, are thought to have been bred by unscrupulous German pet traders in the 1990s.

They are similar to the slough crayfish found in Florida but are parthenogenetic, which means they reproduce with themselves and all their children are genetically identical females.

[LIConFem]

Looks delicious.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

The worms crawl in. The worms crawl out.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

No joke. It WILL take over the planet.

[dforest]

They are already here at a March in DC a short time ago. 😝

[Brooklyn Attitude]

Any Chinese scientists involved in this? Any reports of cloned mutant crayfish outbreaks in Wuhan?

[deadrock]

Wow. That is very funny.

[proud American in Canada]

You guys are making me hungry! Frank’s hot sauce is the best!

[DoodleBob]

Here is another headline you don't see every day.

I don't know if this tops Gay male penguins steal lesbian couple's eggs at Dutch Zoo.

[proud American in Canada]

I’ve been to a church like that. Real Americana, IMO.

The rest of the world should get used to it.

[DoodleBob]

It sorta works.

[unread]

About 4 inches.. Not very large, as mud bugs go....

[justlittleoleme]

Not a problem! Cook Some Rice!

[Sooth2222]

Marbled crayfish, which travel across land and water at night and eat whatever they can, do not occur in nature

It sounds like they occur in nature now. Isn't that the problem?

[oldvirginian]

“Frank’s”

They are very emphatic that you can put that s**t on everything so I guess mutant lesbian crayfish aren’t a stretch.

[njslim]

i’m waiting on the asteroid impact

METEOR 2020

[epluribus_2]

Which means they all look and act the same. We just have to wait for one to “make a mistake”...

Then they all will and we’ll have the advantage.

Either that or send in a brigade or hungry racoons who can’t pass them up. When they are finished not sure what to do with those critters, though

[epluribus_2]

Dirty Rice.

[null and void]

Yup. Can’t beat the Low Countries for weird headlines...

[null and void]

You gave up because you couldn’t spell pinocle dincha?

[bert]

Jambalaya, crawfish pie, filet gumbo....... yum