(1) It's much more difficult to find a coloring book image of a crawdad than one would think.

(2) There is ambivalence about the shallows, the intermediary space between water and land, abode of pythons, crocodiles, crawdads , and mudfish, anomalous creatures that are as good for thought as they are to eat.

(3) Whether you know them as mudbugs, ditch bugs, river lobsters, crawlybottoms, crawdads , or crawfish, anyone who has spent time in streams is familiar with crayfish.

(4) Where I grew up in Ohio, we saw crawdads , or crayfish, in the culverted, sewage-scented ‘creeks’ and would no sooner eat one than we would kitty litter.

(5) Since my last visit, a pleasingly spicy Cajun seasoning had been added to the crawdads (a crustacean that looks like a tiny lobster).