Endangered white-clawed crayfish are being quarantined following the spread of a mystery illness.About 100 of the crustaceans ...
"The coarse fish lay their eggs in the summer and the crayfish just march into those nests and eat every egg and if they run out of food, they just start eating each other. "They're in too many ...
A female slough crayfish was bornwith an additional set of chromosomes - a mutation that allowed her and her offspring to spawn hundreds of eggs at a time without a mate. The population of this ...
The Environment Agency is working with partners to secure the future of an internationally-important population of native ...
While carrying the eggs, the females are said to be “in berry” because the eggs resemble a cluster of berries. After hatching the young crayfish stay by their mother’s side for several weeks before ...
Brits have already been warned about the danger it imposes to our wildlife. The small river creature is known as the American signal crayfish, which was brought over to the UK in fish farms in the 70s ...
The Environment Agency is working with partners to secure the future of the internationally important population in the River ...
Reserve a few crayfish heads. Roll out the pastry to a 5mm thickness and cover the pie dish with it. Trim the edges and press them firmly into the rim of the dish. Brush with beaten egg yolk and ...