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Fiddler Crab Holes.

http://sargeantstudios.net/?m=200903 Throughout Louisiana, the roads are at least slightly embanked to deal with flooding, and the river of course is heavily leveed, and the material for the banks and levees typically comes from nearby – generally the ground adjacent to the road or levee.  So you are always travelling next to a ditch.  The drier ditches are lined with little mud-towers four or five inches high.  I am told [erroneously; see below] these are made by fiddler crabs.  Mark Twain mentions them in his Life on the Mississippi: “The drainage ditches were everywhere alive with little crabs – ‘fiddlers.’ One saw them scampering sidewise in every direction whenever they heard a disturbing noise.  Expensive pests, these crabs; for they bore into the levees.”  I never saw any myself; and I think the levees, which are much larger now, are not much endangered by these crabs anymore.

order provigil europe [These are in fact made by crawfish, thank you Don for the correction.]

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