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Crayfish Control

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Scientific Name: (Family)  Astacidae

Damage

• small burrows in turf areas
• newly planted rice;
• eat baitfish and small game fish or their eggs.

Sometimes the damage can be quite severe. Note the photo below, where a crayfish, living in the soil below, dug its way up through a newly laid rubber surface in a newly established playground. Damage to the surface came to over 20,000 dollars. Photo courtesy of Gina Scheller.

Got photos to share?? Send them to svantassel2@unl.edu

Solutions

Habitat Modification

• Use deep tillage or drainage to destroy burrows or reduce populations;
• Use chemical control on insect prey.

We need your help for ideas on different methods control crayfish.

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