Look-Alikes
Posted by krystyna wojak on December 2, 2005
Q: it looked like a small brown lobster and come
out from the ground
Habitat: suburban/yard
Habitat: suburban/yard
A: You haven't given me many details about your observation but I have an idea about what you probably saw. I'm not familar with Polish animals, but I'm quite sure they have crayfish in Poland just as we do in North America. We usually think of crayfish in rivers, streams, and lakes but there are some species (kinds) that live in tunnels in the ground. These crayfish make tunnels in wet soil and the end of their tunnel has water in it - so they're really in water too. Often there will be many different tunnels in an area. Did you see many other holes too?
So, I'm guessing that you saw a tunneling crayfish that had come out of its burrow. Crayfish are certainly closely related to lobsters but lobsters live in saltwater while crayfish live in freshwater.
Thanks for your question.
John Wiessinger ( December 2, 2005)