The rusty crayfish has another interesting feature in that they can create hybrids of themselves with other species of crayfish. “They will breed with native and other invasive crayfish and by ...

Starry stonewort has become a poster child for invasives. Expensive to control and nearly impossible to eradicate.

An invasive species known to attack the feet of unsuspecting swimmers was just discovered in a Kansas lake, officials said. The Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks found rusty crayfish in ...

The rusty crayfish has become one of the most destructive invasive species in the streams and rivers of Chesapeake Bay states. The Latest; Local News; ...

6. Rusty Crayfish > Scientific name: Orconectes rusticus > Introduced to U.S.: 1960 > Native to: Ohio River drainage. Rusty crayfish is the exception to this list of non-native species, with ...

Crossbreeding between 2 non-native, invasive crayfish species has been found in the Juniata River basin of central Pennsylvania, raising concerns that the hybridization could help the invaders ...

Colorado Parks and Wildlife discovered rusty crayfish, an invasive species native to the Ohio River Basin, in Lake Granby this summer. Skip to content. FOX31 Denver.

We've been studying the invasion and impacts of rusty crayfish since the 1970s, before zebra mussels and other major freshwater invasive species were introduced.

Today, in some lakes, traps can routinely pull up 50 to 100 rusty crayfish at a time, compared to two or three native species. But in other lakes nearby, populations seem to be declining.

Rangeley Lakes Heritage Trust (RLHT) hosted the first annual Invasive Rusty Crayfish Contest in the Rangeley Lakes Region from August 7-13. RLHT provided a trap, information to correctly identify ...

He says these crayfish will compete with native species for the same habitat. “It’d be similar to in the 80s [when] Rusty crayfish got released into the John Day river system,” he says.

Rangeley Lakes Heritage Trust hosted its first Invasive Rusty Crayfish Contest Aug. 7-13 in the Rangeley Lakes Region. The trust provided a trap, information to correctly identify the native and ...