1. Crayfish use their eyes to see. Crayfish use their walking
legs to walk. Crayfish use their antenna to feel and
smell. Crayfish use their pincers to protect them, to hold
things and fight. Male crayfish use their tail flap to swim
and female crayfish use their tail flap to swim and carry
the eggs.
Crayfish Structures
Female crayfish use their swimmerets to holed the eggs
Antenna Pincers
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Pincers s
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Ey
Eyes
Walking Legs
Walking Legs
Tail Flap Tail Flap
Swimmeret

2. CRAYFISH HABITATS
Crayfish live in rivers
lakes and streams. Many
people keep crayfish as
pets. If you want to
keep crayfish you
need... oxygen, fresh
water, rocks, plants,a
big bucket or a tank and
little clay pots. You
need to clean the tank
or the bucket everyday.

3. Crayfish Life Cycle
First the female crayfish
lays its eggs. The mother
crayfish will hold her eggs
for sometime then she will
let go of her eggs. The
eggs will hatch. Sometimes
the mother crayfish will
eat the eggs. The crayfish
baby crayfish will soon get
bigger. After they get
bigger they will mate and
after a wile they will have
babies.