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How do crawfish mate?

Updated: 10/6/2023
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12y ago

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Male crawfish/crawdads produce a packet of sperm that resembles a small raspberry. They approach a female and place the packet at the base of the third peripod using a pair of modified pleopods (in English, that's underneath at the back end, where all the little paddles are). The female curls her abdomen under, and fertilizes the eggs in a special chamber there.

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They reproduce by external fertilisation. They 'pair off' - the male courts the female, encouraging her to lay her eggs. He releases a cloud of sperm - and the eggs are fertilized.

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in the spring a male finds a female and he flips her over and jumps on top and there swimmerets lock

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