Escaped cloned female mutant crayfish take over Belgian cemetery

nzherald.co.nz

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> "It's impossible to round up all of them. It's like trying to empty the ocean with a thimble," said Kevin Scheers, of the Flemish Institute for Nature and Woodland Research.

What? why don't they just...

> Belgian law prohibits the poisoning of the crayfish, which was a method of control used in Spain.

Ah.

Geese, perhaps? I think there's a canadian species thats numerous and hardy...

That is the best headline I've seen in a while. All it lacks is celebrity nudity.

And we have a new winner for the most unusual headline on Hacker News!

“Purdue University Scientists Drive Tiny Robot Around Inside Living Butthole” was also pretty odd

I don't know how I missed that one. We could call it a tie?

NZ newssite used as source for belgian news. Mad-mad world.

Vietnamese Americans will gladly eat them out existence if you want. We love that stuff!

With no diversity wouldn't these be vulnerable to a well tailored disease?

I thought that was one of the benefits of sexual reproduction.

By what delusion do you think we can tailor a disease that well? That's some serious hubris right there.

For a layperson like me it doesn't seem that far-fetched, and I'm clearly not delusional.

Silly me...we can just take this "well tailored disease" down off the shelf. It's next to the disease that takes out invasive rats, kudzu and cockroaches with no potential side effects. Couldn't be simpler. Nope...no delusion here.

One million, seven hundred seventy-one thousand, five hundred sixty-one. That's assuming one crayfish, multiplying with an average litter of ten, producing a new generation every 12 hours, over a period of three days.

I bet they taste good

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