my favorite thing about the pnw is being reminded that not everywhere has a designated and agreed upon spiders season. i love you spiders season
I DO NOT LIKE SPIDER SEASON. NO. NO THANK YOU. Can we give spider season to someplace else? Or at least reliably communicate to the spiders to go visit OTHER PEOPLE THAN ME during spider season? Please? PLEASE I AM BEGGING YOU.
She looks like a Marbled Crayfish – they’re a variant of the Slough Crayfsh that’s mutated to be parthenogenetic, so she’s likely going to just keep on laying fertile eggs as long as she lives.
They’re also extremely adaptive and considered an invasive species that outcompetes native crayfish due to their ability to adapt to different environments and being parthogenetic.
Depending on where you live you may well have an Illegal Crayfish :D
“Unlike other parthenogenetic organisms, the marbled crayfish is an extremely young species;[11] all marbled crayfish are clonal descendants of a single specimen from 1988” What the FUCK that thing came down in a METEOR to lay EGGS in FRESHWATER PONDS around the WORLD
